A Day in the Family History Center

On Sunday, President Justice, invited people to come into the FHC during Sunday School, as a pull out. Our objective was to help them feel more comfortable working with the computer and to get a 4 generation pedigree chart for those who don't have theirs already on familysearch. We decided it would be a one on one class. During 2nd Ward Sun School I had one sister come. During 1st Ward Sister Thompson and I both worked with one sister each. Both those sisters had fun and asked if they could come back today at 10, which they did. Sister Moreno is so much fun to work with. She did not know very much about her husband's family. He passed away a few years ago. Thanks to technology, we found his parents names and information. His father was actually on family search. Sister M kept asking how did he get there? Well, I don't know, but he is there for a reason. We then found his headstone on find a grave.com and low and behold, his wife is laid to rest with him and we were able to get her information. She was listed as Addie M Moreno. We started to see if we could find an Addie born in Supher, OK. in 1908. I figured the M was for Marie. Well, Sister M is thinking and looks at me as we are scrolling through Addies born in OK and then she blurts out, her name was McDonald. I always find it interesting when people say they don't know anything, but then it is as if things are brought to their remembrance, as they start reading through the names that come up on the screen. The Holy Ghost truly does bring things to our remembrance as we go and do as the Lord commands. By then both of us are crying as we slowing enter the data. The keys were hard to see with the tears in our eyes. Sister Thompson and Sister Trujillo keep jumping up to look at what we had found. The spirit that we felt is impossible to describe. At noon I asked if she wanted to come back tomorrow. She looked at me and said what about after lunch. Oh happy day. I feel confident that we are going to continue to find these family members because they were obviously right there with us, guiding us, prompting us. blessing us to find the things we did. The plan is to have members come in one-on-one until they are more confident and have their account set up. Then they can come in during the week to continue working. We will then invite another member or two to take the Sun class. Obviously this will take time, but as people gain stronger testimonies of family history their enthusiasm will be contagious. We actually had 6 people in this morning and a CSW who helped with verifying the obituaries that we have put onto familysearch.