Post #13 - JUNE is bursting out all over!

This bed in front of the
Family History Library
has coleus, ferns,
impatiens, and begonias
– how beautiful! 
In a few weeks the
plants will be even
larger and filled in.  Sister
Loynd from Argentina
stands looking on.

Here Glen uses his pointer to show
new guests how to open an account
with FamilySearch (familysearch.org).  

We continue to feel blessed to serve a mission in Salt Lake City at the Family History Center.  This part of the Utah desert truly blossoms like a rose around Temple Square. The newly planted flower beds of a few weeks ago are now becoming beautiful with lovely blossoms. 

We both enjoy helping guests at the Family History Library. 

We hope all of you friends and family have an account where you can put in your family tree and use its resources to research your family members.  One of the features we especially love is being able to put pictures and stories onto the personal page of each of our ancestors, and during our “free time” or our “personal research time” (1/2 day per week) we’ve been doing just that.  

Did you ever know about Carter cars?
Well, our family owned one in 1912!

Bonnie’s family members can see pictures and stories of the Smiths and Baers, as well as those farther back such as the Stratford, Thomas, Jensen, Neuschwander, Bates, and Hillstead  relatives.  Glen and Bonnie both have also been working on the Dolberg, Hart, Fisher and Skellenger lines, and Glen’s family can see those lines via a FREE familysearch.org account.  He found a book with obituaries and stories about the Skellengers back into the 1600s, and we’ve been adding information about these relatives on FamilySearch.  Quite interesting reading!   

Any of our family members can see the pictures, documents, and stories that we and other family members have put on the site.  We hope that you, our relatives, will go to familysearch.org to see what is there and to get inspired to contribute our shared family history!

You can read about the car and think about those exciting
times in the early 1900s when our family lived.  Did you
ever know about starting cars with a crank handle?

If you do not yet have a FREE account, go to familysearch.org and get your account simply by following the directions there.  Look in the upper right corner of the opening webpage and click on “Free Account”.  If you build your own family tree (click on tree) by a few generations just from your own knowledge, your tree will automatically populate with all of the data which we and others have already put into OUR mutual tree. 

Before it will automatically "grow" you must get your own personal tree big enough (i.e. far back enough) where your tree and ours "touch branches".  Please DO IT!  We guarantee you’ll be happy with the results.  If you are not a member of our family, you will get the same results by building your tree back as far as you can – 4 or 5 generations.  Thousands of folks throughout the world whom you perhaps do not know are really related to YOU.  Probably a distant cousin has already entered a lot of data about YOUR tree.  All you need to do is let the branches in your tree touch theirs and WOW! there you have an amazing picture of who you are and where you come from!  We’re getting better and better at this stuff, so please ask us if you need help and we’ll gladly help. We'll happily and swiftly reply to your inquiries sent to us via dolberg2008@gmail.com.

On June 6, 2015 there was a special “Block Party and Family Reunion” at the Family History Library. 

The event closed off the whole block (South Temple) in front of the library and sponsored special activities for families both inside and outside of the library.

The idea was to point out the fact that we are “all cousins” & to introduce people to the Family History Library.  

A big effort was to point out the fact that we are “all cousins” and to introduce people to the library.

Here is Bonnie with another former Stocktonian, LaDawn Bradshaw, who brought her children to enjoy the event.

 

 A  BIG picture was taken of “all of the cousins” who were there at 10:30 in the morning. 

We love working with the other missionaries and employees on B-1 (International floor) of the FHL.  

Candace Olsen Prisbrey stands
with Bonnie on the floor
where we work every day.

Heidi Sugden

Heidi Sugden is one of the professional genealogical staff employed by the Church to help guests there for free, and we have been enjoying her series of classes about French Research.  Although she is from Austria, she has specialized in French research.  Here she is working at the library in her pretty dirndl.     Another part-time missionary on our floor is Candace Olsen Prisbrey, who was Bonnie’s friend at church and at school during our Portola Jr. High School years in El Cerrito.  

          One Sunday we spent the whole day enjoying the events and visitors centers around Temple Square before heading into the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where our church services are held.  When we’re in town on Sunday mornings we always go to Music and the Spoken Word where the Tabernacle Choir performs their weekly radio/TV broadcast.  It is so much more spectacular in person! Most of the time the Orchestra at Temple Square plays with them, and one week the Bells on Temple Square were there too. WOW!! We also visited the new exhibits in the North Visitors’ Center, which were most enlightening.  If you live in the area or ever come to SLC, be sure to see them, and as you can see the gardens are amazing too.

  

Here he is showing his Dad the creative “wrap”
he designed for his new jeep.  He works as the
Head Designer for Queen of Wraps in SLC,
which puts designs and logos on cars, trucks, etc.  

On our P-days or on weekends, we enjoy coming home to Herriman. 


One week our son Dave came to visit us, and we enjoyed a walk with him in the beautiful Herriman Hills.

Here is Faye with two of her 9 children,
Brian and Allison, who live in the area. 

Another Sunday we went to Bountiful to the Missionary Farewell talk by Faye Wade, formerly of Stockton and Lodi, and who sang with Bonnie in the Joyful Sound for many years.  She will be serving her mission in Helsinki, Finland, where her husband Robert Wade, now deceased, served as Mission President over 40 years ago.   

Also there were Stocktonians Seija and Mark Anderson, Seija also being Finnish and a member of the Joyful Sound. 

We took with us to the event Elder and Sister Aromaa who are serving on our floor in the FHL.  

Sister Aromaa was one of the missionaries who served under the Bob & Faye Wade. 

Nick and Jean Franklin

One weekend we had a visit from Nick and Jean Franklin.  Nick is the brother of Bonnie’s sister-in-law Sally.  We discovered we had a LOT in common with them, including the fact that they and our new daughter-in-law Jessica Capito Dolberg (Peter’s wife) served in the same mission in New Hampshire a few years ago.  Small world… 

This time we welcomed into the
mission a member of our former
 ward in Stockton, Susan
Hopkins (in black at left.) 

Once a month we have a party saying good-bye to those who are leaving and welcoming the new missionaries into our church congregation (Ensign 3^rd Branch) which consists of only HALF of the full-time missionaries in our mission.  The Aloha Social, a potluck dinner plus entertainment, is always fun, as we visit with friends.    

Kent and Barbara Telford whom we
knew in Stockton now live in Las Vegas.

This past Sunday we went as usual to see the Tabernacle Choir, and while waiting afterwards for the “Temple Square Gardens Tour” to begin, we saw in the crowd our friends Kent and Barbara Telford, who lived in Stockton many years ago! It was fun to have time to visit with them more as we all went on the garden tour together.   We got details about how the gardens are designed, planted, and cared for, and saw parts of the gardens that we’d not visited before, including all around the Beehive House .

Spring flowers beside the Salt Lake Temple

We marvel at being in the shadow of the Salt Lake Temple every day, and sometimes we attend services in it, other times we attend the Oquirrh Mountain Temple near our home in Herriman (we're standing in front of that temple in the picture at the top of this blog), or other temples around the valley. We love being near so many temples as we serve on our mission.  We feel blessed to be here serving the Lord and serving our fellow men - in and out of the temple.