A week of visitors. Vedel spent the night with us Thursday evening. Friends from Kingman spent Friday night and Vicki's Aunt Ruth, Uncle Ray their son Eric, his wife and four children spent Sunday morning and afternoon.
Vedel had a conference in town Friday morning and we always love having him join us.
The friends from Kingman came to hear Katherine play her keyboard in Cats' Las Vegas. What a spectacular performance. We had a pancake breakfast Saturday morning and the friends were off by 10:30.
Sabin's come down on occasion when their grandson, Mark has a gymnastic competition in St. George. Eric works in Las Vegas in doing contracting documentation for Big D, and heads home most weekends but on these occasions, he stays here and we enjoy having them over.
Last night (Saturday) as part of my High Council duties, Vicki and I went to a appreciation dinner for a group called Friends in the Desert. Started by St. Timothy's Episcopal Church 15 years ago, volunteers from Henderson provide approximately 30,000 meals each year to homeless people or struggling families. This has become a multi-faith outreach program. Our stake participates by providing 80-100 meals on the first Tuesday of every month. What a wonderful opportunity to meet such neat people who are so kind in reaching out.
Today at church, we had the new family search program introduced to us. This will be a very cool program that takes the work of doing a family name in the temple from 16 to 5 steps. In the process, people who have a strong desire to not do repeat work will have an easier time finding duplicates and also know which names are already in the queue. The part Vicki really liked was that when you first sign on, the family search program will automatically show what your pedigree chart looks like and as you focus on one person, you can open a "google" world map that will show you all the important spots on the earth for your life or the life of the person you are researching.
The program is being rolled out one temple at a time and our temple is supposed to be live on February 26. There have been delays. The rumor is that there is so much interest in this new method that the system has been overloaded and additional servers are needed. Makes you kind of wish you lived in Las Vegas, doesn't it?
TTFN
-Ron
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