The Church Is True In Kenosha!

January 18, 2013

 

The Church is true in Kenosha!

We had been thinking of ways to introduce our Speak-speaking members and investigators to family history. There is a FH Center in our building in Kenosha. It's open on Wednesday evenings and Thursday mornings. We made a plan to check the FHC out and meet the consultants who might be running things on Thursday. The door at the rear of the building had the FHC sign and hours posted. A couple of vehicles were in the parking lot and the door was unlocked when we went seeking. We quickly found two older ladies and a man comfortably seated at a table in the center of in the FH room visiting with each other. There were computers sitting on the counters, as well as microfilm readers, etc. We introduced ourselves as the new senior couple missionaries in Kenosha. They welcomed us and introduced themselves. The brother present was the PFR who was there checking to see that the building got properly locked up after the FHC hours passed. He became a valuable source for the stake president's name and home phone number. The two sisters introduced themselves as Sister Milner and Sister Huggins. All three of these good folks have lived out their lives here in the Midwest; all three are converts to the Church. We asked the sisters about printing out our 4 generation pedigree chart. They both immediately confessed they did not know the first thing about those computers. If we wanted computer help we needed to come on Wed. evening when Sister Abbot would be there. She is the computer guru. We talked about the needs of the branch members. Sister Milner began sorting through some of her materials and found Spanish instructions and forms for getting started. A sticky tab attached to the forms said, "no more than two per person." She gave us three, bless her! We sat across the table from the sisters and listened to them relate their conversion stories and experiences in the Church. Conversion stories are always the best! We love them! As we left the sisters, they went back to their business at hand that we had interrupted. Warmly and comfortably dressed for the cold day, each settled back to her bottle of Coca Cola, bag of chips, and novel. Guess it doesn't get much better than that, even at the Kenosha FHC.

 

It's good to know that the Church is true in Kenosha!