The Fun Spreads to Mississippi!

This is what we chose for our Missionary Placque to be hung in our ward at home.

Elder Holland: As we serve in the mission field, our children and grandchildren will be blessed in ways that would not have been possible had we stayed at home.

Jan. 25, 2016 Last weekend we spoke in a Ward Sacrament Meeting in Mississippi (2 hrs away but in our Stake!) and did a presentation for the public on FamilySearch at the Public Library there, & trained missionaries, non-members, & Family History Consultants in Mississippi on Fri, Sat & Sunday!  A full but great weekend!   We are loving our mission!

This is the list we are using for training.

Basic Skills for Family Search
	Creating an account
	Navigating and using Family Tree
	Connecting to deceased ancestors
	Get Help Tab
	Record Hints
	Adding and correcting information
	Standardize dates and places
	Person Page Interview (missing details or relationships)
	Searching on FamilySearch Site
	Searching Partner Sites
	Source linking methods - (RecordSeek.com)
	Check for duplicates
	Printing Charts
	Descendancy view
	Fan Chart view
	Helper Function
	Memories: Pictures and Stories (Text & Audio)
	Apps for devices (FamilyTree & Memories)
	Changing Order and Title of Sources
	Search Historical Records (Catalog & Historical)
	FindARecord.com
	Teach family and friends
	Indexing
	Family Search Research Wiki

Tom emailed the mission president to tell him in detail how well the training was being received by the public.  Tom also told him that the young missionaries have expressed that they feel a lot more confident teaching others why we do family history after our training. After training, they feel they can help anyone get started. Tom asked the mission president if he would like us to travel the mission & train all of the young missionaries & senior couples. This was the mission president’s reply:

January 25, 2015

Dear Elder & Sister Price,

You have a great big yes for me! It is absolutely amazing what you both are doing! I was so excited, I forwarded your email to Salt Lake to show them everything that you were doing!

Let's go forward with your plan!

Give'em Heaven

President Smith

Florida Tallahassee Mission

850-510-0624

This positive reply means we will start planning a schedule to meet with & train each of the 200 missionaries in our mission who live from Mississippi to Tallahassee, Florida! Fun!

Monroe Branch

This is Elder Renslow on the left & our great Relief Society President on the right. See how young she is, & she has only been active in the church for 2 years. Her husband took the missionary lessons 2 years ago & was baptized. Listening to his missionary lessons renewed her testimony, & she became active again.  She also has a darling 3 year old daughter & works as an X ray Tech.  Her husband is a wonderful, dedicated Young Men's President!

Each 5th Sunday the branch has a fun potluck dinner--a great time for fellowshipping!

We gave Alvin Callier a ride to church this morning. Instead of attending our 8 am Branch Council meeting at 8 am, we left at 7 am, picked him up in Grove Hill at 8 am, & arrived for church at 9 am. After the potluck dinner, we had him home by 3 pm & were to our home by 4 pm.  Long day, but so worth it to be able to include him!

January 9, 2016

January 9, 2016 - Driving back from New Years in UT, we traveled south to be out of freezing weather.  Because hurricanes are not uncommon, many of the businesses and homes along the coast in Mississippi are built on stilts! Was fun to drive through Biloxi, MS where we lived when Chet was 6 mos old & Tom was stationed in the Air Force!

Our Christmas - 2015

We were invited to help at the museum & therefore were able to meet lots of wonderful townspeople during their Christmas activities:)

Monroe Museum Crew +1
(Snow in Monroeville, AL? rented a snow-making machine! )

Before this year we'd never had the chance to spend Christmas with our oldest son, Chet, & his family in Atlanta which is just 4 hours from us. Chet & Danielle are great parents to their 5 children!

At Chet's on Christmas Day 2015 (Who took the picture? - Cool)

January 2, 2016

January 2, 2016 - We were able to go from Alabama to Utah for our 18th annual 3 day Family Reunion with our children & grandchildren.  It was a great time of family bonding & lots of fun!!

Pics taken from our balcony in the vacation home we rented for the reunion in Bear Lake

G'ma & G'pa  "Happy New Year"

Brady & Allison

With Charity 'n Kids

Brady

Lani's Family's Dance

Luke Dances!

Jacob's Family Gets a Turn!

Mom's "screened" view from our home.

It's only 20 feet of trees with farmland on the other side of the trees, but it's a beautiful view from my screened window in the bedroom!

Our Beautiful RV Setting

So - yes, we are way behind in our blogging. The temperatures are warm but not too hot yet. The foliage is green - green - green.

How could we be so blessed? We are 1.3 miles from the Monroe Branch building (where we attend) and are situated in a great, secluded RV Park - and have been the only ones in the park since we arrived. Here are 3 aerial pictures showing: 1- Our location and our church building, 2- Closer view of our campsite, 3- Close-up of where we are parked, 4- View of our RV and 5- View from our RV.