Missing Person

Some highlights of the week:

A veteran missionary at the Library requested that the topic of 10-minute training be about using source linker. Of course, I had to find a record hint in my own family to create the training.    I “randomly” chose a hint which eventually, with some homework (which I try not to do), led to finding a “missing person,” Annie Fullard.  I and others had assumed that Annie and her sister Nellie were the same person.   Once I created Annie in the tree and attached sources, the search engine gave me more about her husband and children.  Maybe not random?

Christopher and Melissa joined us at the Mount Timpanogos Temple on Friday evening for a sealing session.  The sealer had a sense of humor:  “You don’t have to have brains to be a sealer—just good hair.”  Even though the other couples in the room were strangers, it didn’t feel like it.  And there were likely other “familiar spirits” with us. 

Friday night, we attended, with Lindsey, La Luz de Los Naciones in the Conference Center.  That huge venue was full of happy people eager to celebrate their culture from South America and Mexico.  Colorful costumes, people of all ages dancing and singing—and cheering.  Mariachis reminiscent of my days in Mexico.

Halloween was cold, which deterred the trick-or-treaters only slightly.  One of the delights of parenthood—and now grandparenthood—is watching dragons, pumpkins, fireflies, super heroes and many more fly from house to house to be met by smiling “treaters.”   I especially liked seeing big sister Henley ensure that Hal knew the routine. Ahh, childhood!    

It's a most wonderful time of the year:)