Day: November 29, 2021

I think that I want to formalize this hour of Family History so that I have a little more structure. Mondays I will do searching and finding names to take to the temple. Tuesdays I will do more searching to follow up on Mondays names. Wednesdays I will do indexing. Thursdays I will work in Memories uploading pictures, writing stories, exploring. Fridays will be Rootstech, reviewing talks and classes, etc. Saturdays will be exploring Activities section and involving others in my FH. Sundays I will work on my personal life story.

Today using Ordinance Ready tab, 5 names were found for me to do Initiatory work on this Thursday. I need to help my mother-in-law find 5 names to take also. I think we also have sealing appointment that day at 4 pm. I already have 6 names for sealing ordinances and 1 endowment which is next week on Dec. 8.

I reviewed the names for initiatory today and they are women who were wives of my cousins 3 or 4 times removed. Some lived in the States and others in England and Scotland. One of them was born in Scotland but died in Singapore. That sounds like quite a story.

One of the talks in church yesterday was on Family History and the speaker, Bro. Padilla, said that it is estimated over 110 billion people have lived on the earth. We have a lot of work to do! What an amazing task to connect all of those people to the Family tree of the earth! No wonder Pres. Nelson has said that gathering scattered Israel is the most important work we can be involved in at this time.

It has been 21 days since I started this iteration of my journey! I have missed posting only 1 day! I am pretty excited about the changes I am experiencing in my life. I have become a weekly temple attendee. I notice more people around me being interested in Family History..I am not claiming that it is my influence that has caused that. I know it is the Spirit of Elijah working to encourage all people whatever their religious beliefs to seek for connection to the past, to hear and tell stories, and to share love and concern.

This holiday weekend has been so memorable! Jessica, my oldest daughter, was here for Thanksgiving Dinner and the whole weekend. I hadn’t planned on her at all because she had to work on Thanksgiving Day but one of her co-workers volunteered to work her shift! It was so wonderful to see her walk in the door on Thursday afternoon. I think it was a blessing from the Lord. Nicole came home for Thanksgiving also and she helped me with pie-making on Wednesday and a lot of cooking on Thursday. Samantha helped out a lot with cooking and running errands on Thursday. We got to spend time with Cassandra on Friday and Saturday.

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Last night, all of our girls, Gil, Dan (Samantha’s boyfriend) and I met at Schmidts Christmas Tree Corner and picked out a Christmas tree. That has long been a family tradition to buy a fresh-cut Christmas tree. The girls will run around the lot in between the trees playing hide and seek whatever the weather. There was no running around last night but we were all together and got a picture together. The tree is still in the garage and not decorated but we will get to that tomorrow night hopefully. We have never bought our Christmas tree this early but we were all together and it seemed important to do.

Tonight, I had the opportunity to listen to Gil senior tell about playing Santa Claus for a family in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania when he was in the Navy. I wish I would have recorded it on Family Search. I am going to write it up and then have him edit it and maybe then I can get him to record it while reading it.

I have learned a lot about using this blog and I know I have a lot to learn but it is coming. This week I will be getting up at 4:15 to do my Family History. I do so much better in my day when I give my best to the Lord early in the day.