Colby's Hope: family history

Family History Fair

6:48 AM
By Colby Christensen
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A few weeks ago my stake had a family history fair with classes and activities to teach everyone more about family history. I was really excited about this when it was first announced because family history is a passion of mine.

They had some tables set up in the gym of books and things from each ward representing people's family history. It was fun to look through and see the many different ways people remember their heritage.

I went a class that talked about recording our personal history. There are many different ways to do this, my favorite is just writing in a journal. But we talked about lots of different ways to record things about your life including scrapbooking, videos, blogging, online journaling etc.

I'm very grateful for my grandparents and great-grandparents who have done this so I can learn more about them and my ancestors. I would encourage you to start recording a personal history; you and your family will be very grateful in the future.

Always have hope,

Colby

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Beauty for Ashes Part 2

6:03 PM
By Colby Christensen
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LDS temples give an awesome opportunity to the community in the few months before a temple is dedicated. They have an open house and allow people to go through and see parts of the temple. It's a fun thing to do with your family.

I also had a great opportunity to go on a bride's tour with my mom and the girls from my ward. We got to see the bride's room and a couple other areas that aren't shown in the regular tour. It was very special.

The couple that came and spoke to us described a lot of how the new temple was built. It was amazing to me to realize how much effort goes into building temples and how much they care about having it be as stable and safe as possible.

They put many layers of water protection surfaces and other things to help protect the temple from being overly damaged. And because the 4 outside walls were the only ones that remained after the fire, they had to rebuild the whole inside of the temple.

Learning about this miracle temple has helped me even better understand the importance of temples. I am grateful that I am able to have so many temples close to me and that I am able to participate in family history work and help those on the other side of the veil.

I'm looking forward to the Provo City Center temple dedication this weekend as well as the cultural celebration. A lot of my friends are in it and I'm looking forward to watching them and the amazing performances they have put together. If you have the chance to watch the dedication and or the cultural celebration, I think it'd be a great experience. I'm grateful for temples and the amazing spirit they hold.

Always have hope,

Colby

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Family Temple Trip

1:23 PM
By Colby Christensen
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My grandparents were here visiting a few weeks ago and I had a vey special experience. Family history is something that a lot of people in my church do in order to find our ancestors and discover our genealogy. My grandma especially is very into doing family history and finding family names for us to take to the temple and do their work.

She had found quite a few family names that were closely related to. Since my brother Logan and I are the only ones older than 12, we are the only ones who can go to the temple and do the names. I was excited because I had never been able to go to the temple with my parents and grandparents. So there were three generations!

I also got to experience another new thing. My church just organized this new family time in the temple where you can bring in your family names and you are the only ones in there. It was really nice because I just got to be with my family.

It was a really neat experience being able to be baptized for family members I had heard so much about. My grandma said it was also a fun experience for her because she had never been to the temple with any of her grandchildren.

I am grateful for family history and the ability that we have with the technology and all of the resources that we have to be able to discover information about our ancestors. I'm also grateful that I have the ability to go to the temple with my family and do family history work.

Always have hope,

Colby

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Family History

6:14 PM
By Colby Christensen
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Today I would like to write about something that is very interesting and special to me. And that is family history. Family history is something that we do in my church to discover more about our ancestors. I have thought ever since I was little that we need to leave the family history work to the older generation. But it seems that lately there has been a push for the younger people to began doing this amazing work.

There are many reasons youth are now starting to get involved in family history. But I think a big one is that we know the technology. It's so amazing the things that we can find through all of the family history programs that have been created.

Another thing I like about family history is all the things you can learn about your ancestors. You can find things like marriage dates, war records, residence records, etc. There are so many people who don't know a lot about their families and this can help!

My ward has decided to start something called the Family History Project. In this project the youth will go around the ward and record the stories of the ward members so that they can have them. I think this is not only a great experience for the people we are recording the stories for, but it's good for the youth to learn more about family history. I will do an update when we finish the project and tell you how it went.

I am very grateful for family history. I just became more interested in it about a year ago, and I've loved it ever since! It is great to learn more about my family and all that they've done to get me where I am today. I hope that you are involved in family history and love it as much as I do.

Always have hope,

Colby

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