so this week has been great aside from not having a very big teaching pool. things do progress with anacostia central! man since daylight-savings it has been getting darker sooner then usual. but we continue to work hard! so this month is the great month of thanksgiving and a great month to appreciate what we have and what has been gifted to us by our loving heavenly father! we are all blessed to be here on this earth and to have the family's we do! what are you blessed with in your life? write in on a piece of paper and put it in a journal or have it for your family in the future! a great thing is that your future family will look in your stuff after you pass and something may be about them or even just something they can learn about you or just even when they do family history for you that's one thing they will find! but that's the great thing about family history and leaving something for your future family. also think of this: have you been doing family history? have you been using Familysearch.org? i have found so many cool things on mine so far. i have found the funeral service talks on my great great grandfather on my grandpa Snyder side. its such a blessing and i know that the spirit of Elijah is with you as you do the work. someone told me "those on the other-side of the veil are there to help us so that we can help them do their work.". i know as we do the work for our ancestors it makes the temple trip more meaningful and great! on my mission i have a goal to finish all 10 names i have been given do temple work. get this i have 10 or so temple trips left on my mission. that's crazy so i have that time to finish their work in the temple! so i invite you to look into your family search and do the same and find names you can do work for in your family. also try to do it as a family, maybe for a family home evening activity or lesson, and learn together of where your from, stories, pictures, where your last name came from or where it may have changed. anyway i know i have found that from both sides of my family has come from Sweden & Norway. its cool also its a little diffrent for me cauz i have 3 familys i look up the tree for. even though my real dad is out of the picture i still look at his family but i look at my moms, my new dads, and my old dads side. its still great! so down below is pictures i will have on my family tree so when i die people can see it when they look me up down the line in the future! also this blog will be on there as well so they can read all the stuff from my mission and as well as i was! i hope you all have a great day and give family search a try and see what you find! i know familys are a great blessing! i know family has had to deal with allot of crap with me around and with me not being around much either! i was a turd and unsupportive and wasnt home a whole lot. i always was someone that wanted to be alone but i appreciate my family alot now and cant wait till i start mine and it will be great!
