Don't want to get out of the habit of writing on our blog. This week was very quiet compared to last week when we cooked 10 turkeys. This week Sister Boothe cooked 1 turkey, the gravy and the stuffing. We brought our favorite holiday salad, a veggie tray, and rolls. The Andersons brought mashed potatoes, pickles, olives, and fresh cranberry sauce. I must admit dinner was pretty quiest with just 6 mature people, but we had a lot of fun and ate pie for dessert. Sister Anderson made pumpkin pie and chocolate pie, both were very, very good.
We discovered that Elder Anderson is also very good at making pottery. He said they only brought their imperfect pots, but they looked pretty perfect to me. I loved the colors and shapes. I am going to ask him if I could take a picture. He is extremely modest and very quiet most of the time, but I think he will let me take pictures if I say PLEASE!
This week the Stake members are going over to the Snowflake Temple to do baptisms and endowments. They always take their Temple trips very seriously and next Sunday being Fast Sunday I know we will be in awe of all the neat experiences they will share about going to the Temple.
On Sunday afternoon a Sister Ashcroft will be coming up to talk to us about preserving the records we have been indexing. She is retireing after serving in the family history center for 40 plus years. She is an expert on Native American culture, so we are excited to visit with her and get ideas on how we can make our records available to descendants of the Native Americans in our area.
Here is one story that I have allready shared with a few of you. This happened Tuesday night at the Family History Center.
At 6:55 I walk over to the FHC and practice the piano in the Primary room while they have opening exercises. Then Brother Allen comes in and we start, teaching both boys who show up for YM. It was awesome. Joseph is Pres. Justice's son, and they go back to the 1500's, but Matthew is a nonmember. He is one very large kid and pretty funny, he likes to joke and kid around. We had visited his dad just a few days ago because he was in the hospital. He was going in for surgery about 40 mins later. His mom who is also a nonmember has been attending the RS activities and getting to know the ward members. She has also been coming out to church.
Anyway I told Matthew he couldn't just sit there and look cute, he had to work. We started him out on the old PAF and he comes to a stop after putting in his parents. Then Bro Allen says his mom is there and that he would go get her. She comes in we chit chat and she tells Matthew to type. He doesn't like to use the shift key, so he is always having to go back and capitalize, which his mom and I both say almost at the same second everytime he forgets which is everytime he types a name.
She is telling him names and he is typing. We come to her grandparents and she says she doesn't remember the first name of her gr mother. She mentions that they all died in New Mexico and I ask, "Crownpoint?"
She says, " Yes some did die there. "
Then she says Becenti and I say, "let's look."
We start with the first few and then we get to Nellie Becenti and she says, "That's her."
I start reading the obituary and it states that she had 11 children. I say that not all the children born lived to adulthood, because of the conditions. Much to my surprise all 11 children are listed with their residence at the time she died.
That obituary was one of the 468 obituaries that we indexed, cut, filed and put into the 3 binders we put together.
I asked Matthew today if he filled out the papers I sent with him, but he hadn't. He is however coming back with his mom on Tuesday. Sunday Elder Olson was asked to give a blessing to one of the member's mother who was having trouble with her eyes. It turns out that she is Matthew's aunt. She is his dad's sister. I don't think things like this happen by coincidence. We are going to have Matthew visit with her and add her husband, children, and grandchildren to the tree he has already started.
When you walk over and turn on the faucet and water comes out remember to offer a pray of thanks for how easy it was to do.
Elder & Sister Olson
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