01-May-2019

Elders,

Tomorrow (Thur) is our Elder’s Quorum activity over at the clubhouse. Mildred Barlow is going to share “Her Life, Laughter, & Learning”. The dinner and program will be at the clubhouse at 7:00pm. Please contact either Doug Moore 801-231-2636 or Scott DuVall 801-808-6505 if you have any questions. Hope that you and your better half are able to join us. I wish that I could be there but I have another engagement.

Last Sunday we were able to have a discussion around temple and family history with the Relief Society. Nick Bassett led the discussion and challenged us to do something today. It could be something as simple as getting your churchofjesuschrist.org / familysearch.org account setup. It could be taking 10 minutes to do a quick batch of indexing (that is what I did). Or, just downloading the familysearch tree app on your phone. There are so many simple little things you can do. I hope that you’ll take the challenge and do a little something today. 

At our house we had several extended family members in from out of town. As we talked over dinner tonight, we ended up in a long discussion around family histories, telling stories, and sharing the familysearch tree application. Our extended family would rather do pretty much anything other than talk about church or go to church, but there we were – talking all about our family tree and what it will be like to get to know them and their “actual” stories once we meet again in heaven. It was a great way to talk about important things and build relationships.

This Sunday we’ll have a Sunday School – Come Follow Me lesson on Matthew 18, Luke 10, and John 7-10. I don’t want to impose on Kris’ lesson, but I really loved studying John 9 this morning about Jesus healing a blind man on the sabbath. I had a couple of insights that I hadn’t thought of previously. Maybe I’ll write about it a little next week if we don’t get to discuss it on Sunday.

Thank you for making “Sunday Snacks” a big success. Thank you for coming and sharing your treats and conversation. It was a great afternoon. I hope you all enjoyed it. We’ll organize another one soon. Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to make it even better.

Thank you for being great men. I appreciate all the good you do.

Thanks,

President Oldroyd
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