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Happy Birthday to my darling Flexy!

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My darling Flexy turned
 20 years old today! Wow! 
Where did the time go?
Just to celebrate, 
here are 20 things
 I love about Flexy…
* he is rarely upset
* he knows how to have fun 
with out spending money 
* he is responsible
* he loves Heavenly Father
* he is a good friend
* he is kind to everyone
* he is easy going/happy go lucky
*  he is a hard worker
* he is my most quoted child
* he is a good brother
* he loves Jesus
* he is a good example 
* he is loving
* he is strong
* he is funny
*he is an Eagle Scout
* he is very profound
* he is handsome
* he is respectful
* he is a great son! 
You are a wonderful son!!! Happy Birthday Alex!
I love you!

Family History Friday: Handwriting!

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If you do a lot of research that involves a census or parish record, where the names and information is hand written by a enumerator or census taker. 
Having a guide or an example of the handwriting  that was common at the time, would be very helpful in being able to read and know what they were trying to record. 
There are many helps out there. 
I like to keep a sheet of paper with me when I do research that shows example of the way some letters or numbers might be written and what they are.  You can also find many helps on the internet. One such place is britishgenealogy.com 
You will find it here.

Totally "Fort Worth" it!

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First Letter February 24th 2011
Dear Familia,
Hola, Wow! The MTC is crazy! There are so many great people here. Today is thursday, so the wild stuff is mostly over. Yesterday was pretty much a blur, but I’ll tell you what I can remember. After you guys left, they took me and my luggage back to a room where a bunch of other sisters were. I met a bunch of them and we chatted for a little bit. Then a sister that has been here for a while came and got me. She took me around to pick up a bunch of different items I would need (i.e. my key to my room, my name tag, books and scriptures in Espanol, and lots of other things), and to drop off my luggage. Then she took me to my class. Hermana Billins is so cute. She is one of my teachers, and she mostly speaks Spanish. she’s trying to have us speak as much as we can, as often as we can. Haderlie is my other teacher. He is great too. I’ve only met with him a little, but I can tell he is going to be awesome. After class we had a Welcome Orientation where we met the MTC Presidency. They are so amazing! I know they are called of God. Next we went to dinner, which reminded me of high school or jr. high, except everyone is nice, and talks to you.
Oh, I forgot to tell you about my two companions. Hermana Rasmussen is from Idaho Falls, and Hermana Barlow is from Washington DC. They are super great and adorable. At dinner I saw, none other than, Sister Buswell! It was so exciting! We both got all excited and gave hugs, and she talked with me a bit. It was so nice to see her. She is such an inspiration to me. Also, I saw Brother and Sister Fowers, and gave them hugs. After dinner we went to a group teaching where you are in a small group (maybe 20 missionaries), and you teach an investigator. You are supposed to try to see what their needs are. We met with three men. It was really a good experience to talk to them, and see what we could do for them, and to see how just us sharing small parts of the gospel with them changed their disposition. It was really neat. After that, we met our Zone Leaders, and them ca e back to our room to unpack. I had a really hard time sleeping last night I got bed @ 10:30, but couldn’t sleep because I had so much going on in my head. Plus I woke up several times in the night. We decided wake up @ 5:45 to go to the early morning exercise class just for girls, so we went to that. Today has just been really busy. That’s pretty much what we always are though. Busy, busy, Busy! But another good thing about today…I met another Sister going to Fort Worth, Spanish speaking!! Her name is Hermana Valdez and she is leaving to go down to Texas in March, because she already knows Espanol. It was so exciting to meet her though. I’ll probably see her down in Texas. Anyway, I probably better go now. Love you all lots. Do good things! Love, Hermana Kelsey
PS Be sure to give my address to everyone!  I want lots of letters!
🙂 oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 8:4 -email-



Make,
wow thats so cool i’m glad all went well with dropping Kelsey off. my new comp is awesome and all is well. but this computer is the laggiest computer ever so i have to be short. ya i just bearly realized that my birth day is coming up soon its kinda weird. anyway

1 Did you ask the Blackburns if they will do a disc of your pictures?
1.ya i’m gonna talk to them about that.
2 Did your baptism happen?
2.yep Babe Elias Dlamini is officially a member
3 If so how was it?
3.great all went well i gave a talk on the holy ghost it was good
4 What is the name of the town/city that you live in?
4., , swaziland
5 How is your companionship?
5.great elder diseko is a great guy
6 Favorite scripture?
6.Mathew 14:26(CTR)
Special question:
7 Why do we need to not judge?

7.  because we don’t have all the facts as to why this person did this only God has that knowledge.
love you sorry this computer stinks

 Love Elder Flexy



Babe,
glad to hear all the good news i’m still alive and kickin the work is going well and i’m loving swaziland. thats cool about your friends shop we have an investigator that has some swords and battle axes on his walls as decorations. anyway this computer is giving me a hard time love you.
Love Elder Flexy


EM!!!
your all alone i hope all works out with your friends thats why you get friends like me and colter then you don’t have to worry about all that. anyway i love you my little sister.

Love Elder Flexy

Sunday Best!

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Matthew 5:14-16
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 
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Hope your Sunday was the Best! Love, Joy

Totally "Fort Worth" it!

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We dropped off 
our beautiful daughter Kelsey
 at the Missionary Training Center yesterday! Wow, it was rough! Here is how the day went…
Kelsey doing last minute arranging in her suitecase!

Aren’t they darling!!

Ready to go!!

Lunch on the way!

Driving up the hill to the MTC!!
The Elders are there to help with her luggage!
Emily is saying the whole time, “Aren’t they cute!”
Hugs and tears!!!

A manly hug and no tears from Riley!

We are so excited for Kelsey!! 
She will be a great missionary!

Yes, Pappa cried too!! He is a tender Dad! 

And there she goes!! 
We are all crying and watching her go!! 
The Elders take her into the building on the left,
 were the Sisters are waiting for her!
We leave and spend the rest of the day 
trying to stay busy and 
think happy thoughts!! 
She is going to have a wonderful mission and will be a blessing to those she is called to serve. She is also going to have all kinds of experiences, all of which, will bless her for the rest of her life. 
We are so proud of her!!;)

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 8:3 -email-

Make,

wow, wow! so its already been another transfer and Elder Webster is moving on to bigger and better things my new companion is Elder Diseco he is from joburg somewhere i’ll give you more details after i meet him. but ya life in swaziland is awesome we saw the biggest dogs i’ve ever seen in my life. lucky for us they were nice. i’m not sure whats going on with my body cause i’m getting soft and i’m losing weight i’m not sure what that means but oh well. 
1 How was your week?
1.great we are working very very hard.
2 Favorite scripture?
2.well in second nephi chapter i think eleven is the chapter that talks about christ being a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense its a good scripture.
3 Do you have a required number of contacts, discussions (teaches), etc you are supposed to do each week?
3. No, we just work as hard as we can.
4 Have you noticed the Lord directing you in any particular way?
4.ya we do random finding and we have found a lot of people that way.
Special Question:
What are the blessings of obedience?

5.well the lord blesses you with success and blesses us with safety.
anyway i’ll have some more information next email about my new comp.love you

                                                               Love Elder Flexy    

Babe,
man that’s so crazy how close Kelsey is, i’m so exited. i’m glad she got to see all the family before she goes anyway and i’m glad your staying busy. ya i miss the snow but at night swaz gets pretty chily so i’m sleeping well not like i was in durban. but ya this place is prepared of the Lord these people want to hear the gospel so bad so the work is going well. anyway we have a baptism this coming sunday its gonna be so good!!! anyway i’m still alive and kickin. love you

                                                                Love Elder Flexy   

Hermana Kelsey,
two days my seeeesteer!!!!! thats so freakin crazy your going to love your mission and the mtc. If you meet Brother Wall or Brother Bott( you probably saw him in the videos you watched) or Sister Swan tell them your my sister and they might remember me. ya i’m sure your freaking out. i sure was, i may not have shown it but i was but. my advice is use the sky diving code “dont think just go” and next thing you know you will be in the field loving life. anyway keep emailing. love you.

                                                                 Love Elder Flexy

EM dog the big cheese, Emily Nan, Em!!:)
ya i could have told you, you were gonna miss me and Kels. your gonna be all alone, but you will be fine. Make and Babe to take care of you and Riley might. haha i’m glad i’m on mission when you started dating because i’d be kicking some little emfans(boys in swati) butts. if they broke your heart, so they should consider themselves lucky. HAHA 🙂  love you sis.

                                                                 Love Elder Flexy

Family History Friday (FHF): On Genealogy!

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Taken from “Talk Capsules”
by Albert L. Zobell, Jr.
Genealogy
A friend of ours has a wife with a peculiar quirk. Barring Smiths and Joneses, she is unable to believe that any two people can have the same name and not be the same person.
The other day she saw a headline stating that Dick Johnson had broken the pole vault record.
“How exciting!” she exclaimed, “I’m going to phone and congratulate him.”
“Huh?” the patient husband looked up perplexed. “It’s not the same Dick Johnson as I go to work with. He’s fifty-five, weighs 235 pounds. He couldn’t vault a fire hydrant!”
“But it said Dick Johnson,” she insisted.
“Another Dick Johnson” my friend went back to his part of the evening paper. Just as he’s tried to explain that Elsie Harper, their Saturday cleaning woman isn’t the same Elsie Harper who writes mystery novels and that their mailman, John Williams, isn’t the man wanted by the FBI. 
Whatever we  think of a story like that the story has a point. The point that proper identification is a must. And if proper identification is a must in a circle acquaintances, how much more vital proper identification becomes in the great work of genealogy.
Happy Family History Friday! Love, Joy