Another week come and gone.
This place is colder than a freezer!
We have done a lot of work with family history this past week. Our recent converts Mashell and Christina both got really excited about it as well as Mashell's husband who is less active. Christina was baptized over a year ago who has been really hot and really cold and we helped discover her 4 generations and so now she is really excited to do more. She hasn't been to the temple yet so hopefully this will get her into gear. every thursday or so we have a family history night scheduled at the Grigg's home for recent converts and whoever wants to come. It works great.
We also made a cool flyer to put in the local libraries about anyone interested in having free family history help. We got a call from a lady that we are meeting with tonight. The librarian in Casey is more than happy to let us help people in the library, and she is interested too! She was really impressed with our flyer and was excited to put it up for people to see! We also have located a genealogical center in Paris and in Marshall where we are hoping to see what we can do with them.
Dusty, our top progressing, dropped us the other day. She has nothing against our teaching or anything, she is just confused and wants to take a step back to sort things out. She still had us come over for dinner though and she talked a lot of things out with our ward mission leader and his wife while Elder Burgoyne and I started her with a Family search account and traced her lineage back to her great-great grandpa! So now we at least have an excuse to come back though she doesn't want to be baptized anymore (at least for now).
For District meeting we got the whole district signed up on family search and familiar with it. They have all promised to fill out their booklets and to implement with the help of ward leaders ways to reach out with the help of family history. It has been cool learning some of the stories of Great-great-great grandpa Orrin, Great grandma Maxine, Grandpa Wallace. I never knew that Grandpa Wallace was the first to fly helicopters in Utah or that he flew all of those planes to the south pacific for world war 2. I thought it was hilarious that Grandpa Maxine would get her primary kids to behave by threatening to sit on them! And I never knew that Granpda Orrin had a pet bear that he would cuddle with when he was drunk and was good friends with Butch Cassidy! What else do I not know about our family! It is so easy for these stories to be forgotten. I've been doing a lot of thinknig about family members I've never known and I just hope that I can continue the trend some day with a family of my own.
We also made a cool flyer to put in the local libraries about anyone interested in having free family history help. We got a call from a lady that we are meeting with tonight. The librarian in Casey is more than happy to let us help people in the library, and she is interested too! She was really impressed with our flyer and was excited to put it up for people to see! We also have located a genealogical center in Paris and in Marshall where we are hoping to see what we can do with them.
Dusty, our top progressing, dropped us the other day. She has nothing against our teaching or anything, she is just confused and wants to take a step back to sort things out. She still had us come over for dinner though and she talked a lot of things out with our ward mission leader and his wife while Elder Burgoyne and I started her with a Family search account and traced her lineage back to her great-great grandpa! So now we at least have an excuse to come back though she doesn't want to be baptized anymore (at least for now).
For District meeting we got the whole district signed up on family search and familiar with it. They have all promised to fill out their booklets and to implement with the help of ward leaders ways to reach out with the help of family history. It has been cool learning some of the stories of Great-great-great grandpa Orrin, Great grandma Maxine, Grandpa Wallace. I never knew that Grandpa Wallace was the first to fly helicopters in Utah or that he flew all of those planes to the south pacific for world war 2. I thought it was hilarious that Grandpa Maxine would get her primary kids to behave by threatening to sit on them! And I never knew that Granpda Orrin had a pet bear that he would cuddle with when he was drunk and was good friends with Butch Cassidy! What else do I not know about our family! It is so easy for these stories to be forgotten. I've been doing a lot of thinknig about family members I've never known and I just hope that I can continue the trend some day with a family of my own.
We ourselves have met a couple of less actives that have knowledge of family history that are willing to help out too. Our Branch president though is concerned about doing it though because he doesn't want to schedule any more days to keep people from being with their families (which is ridiculous since family history will only bring families together!!!!) and there isn't enough rooms in the building to do it during mutual so we aren't sure how we are going to get him on board with family history. His wife really likes it though so we will see.
Other than that, things are going okay. Elder Burgoyne has been doing great. Our other investigator Julie is on date for baptism the 29th and she and her returning member husband have been reading the Book of Mormon consistently!
That's all I really feel like writing today. Hope you all are enjoying your life and aren't wasting it doing meaningless things.
Love Elder Soutas
St Bernard followed Elders
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