Brother and Sister Don and Glenda Evans from Calgary have been called as the new Area Family History Advisers. Please join us in welcoming them and helping them as they start their new calling. We know they would appreciate our prayers.
For us this means a sad farewell. We have served for just over 5 years, and had a wonderful time. What will we remember most? Will it be all the exciting new resources for FH? Will it be all the updates and changes? Will it be combining IOUs? No, it will be each of you! We appreciate your special spirit. We appreciate your faith, courage, patience, and determination. We have met thousands of wonderful people. There is a special spirit that comes when we teach and talk about Temple work and Family History. We will miss the abundance of that spirit that we have felt. We have a testimony of the importance of this great work. We look forward to doing more of our own Family History! We send our love and best wishes to each of you.
For the next few weeks we will be working with Brother and Sister Evans during a transition period. Brother and Sister Evans are wonderful and well qualified for the work.
We will let them introduce themselves.
Farewell, Peter and Linda
Hello Fellow Subscribers,
As with many opportunities to serve in the church, we accept this calling with feelings of inadequacy and excitement at the same time. We very much look forward serving the Lord in this work that is such a significant part of the plan of salvation. The world of genealogy is going through massive change – particularly with continued technology advances lending so much to new opportunities for research and record keeping. FamilySearch will continue to evolve its resources as well, with the coming of Family Tree as an example.
We know there will be a chorus of thank-yous for the Darbys and the work they’ve done so diligently over the past six years, and we add ours to that chorus as well! They have left a rich legacy that will be drawn on for many years.
For the sake of establishing our roots, Glenda was born and raised in Australia with her ancestry going back to England, and has been involved with her research for many years. Don is a native Albertan with his ancestors coming to Ontario from all parts of the United Kingdom.
It’s fortunate that the calling has come to us at this time of year. The summer months will give us time to get up to speed and prepare for visits throughout Alberta. The most exciting event on our itinerary will be the opening of the Calgary Temple this October. We look forward to connecting with the 23 Stake Presidents and their assigned High Councillors and having the opportunity to catch their vision for family history work in their stakes.
Again, our sincere thanks to Peter and Linda for their diligent attention to this work and we wish them nothing but health and success in their continued church service. We look forward to playing our role in the Lord’s work and assisting all of you in your efforts. And we look forward to meeting all of you in the coming months…
Don and Glenda
Elder & Sister Darby, thankyou so very much for the service you have rendered. I just wish, many times, that there was a way to clone the brains of those who are so wonderful in their callings and the technology they learn along the way.
Elder & Sister Evans, Welcome, and I look forward to meeting you when you come down to the Cardston Alberta family history centre. May the Lord bless you in your new calling and keep you protected as you travel to fulfill your responsibilities.
Brother and Sister Darby- what a wonderful experience working with you! I have learned so much and felt so much your love of this great work! Thank you for your training, insights, many hours of travelling and your testimonies.
I wish you much success in all you do, Brother and Sister Evans- a big welcome to you too! I look forward to meeting you and can already feel your enthusiasm for the work! Well done everyone!
We will certainly miss you both, we have all learned so much from you. Thank you for your dedicated service, your talent and expert knowledge of all things “Family History” . Your presentations were wonderful. Your Sunday morning emails “so helpful”. All the best to you in the future. Jeannie Remington
Thanks to you Peter and Linda for all the hours you spent serving in your calling! I learned so much in the last six years! Your dedication to family history was exemplary. Is there some way that with all the new technology that I could plug my brain into yours and be able to retain all the valuable info. that you have diligently searched for and found…. just keep swimming, just keep swimming. enjoy the summer. you deserve it!!! love from annette ellingson.
Thanks to the Darbys for all of the great emails. We shall miss you. Jackie Paries
Elder and Sister Darby, thank you so much for your newsletters. You have been so helpful to so many people and I appreciate your diligence helping us all around Alberta.
Elder and Sister Darby. Thank you for your dedicated service to Family History in our area. I always enjoyed and benefited from your presentations at our conferences. I have also learned much from the newsletter and blog as I read and followed the instructions given. Happy (family tree) Hunting.
Nancy Schaalje
Henderson Ward, Lethbridge Alberta East Stake
Elder and Sister Darby, thank you so much for your great example in your church service. I still remember the time you and Art Johnson came to give the nFS presentation and because of this you convinced me to sign up for the Family History Support mission. Thank you for showing us your testimony by example.
Welcome Elder and Sister Evans hope to get to know you through this newsletter and maybe even when you come to visit Lethbridge.
Brother and Sister Darby,
We appreciate all of the wonderful advice and instruction we have received from you in Taber and the information at the conferences in the fall in Lethbridge. We enjoyed all of your columns on Sunday.
Welcome to Elder and Sister Evans to your new postion and will look forward to your visits. Keith and Roberta Lawlor