Big Announcement!

There is no picture to this post--only a big announcement that needs to be recorded for posterity.  Today, December 15, 2012, at the ages of 79 and 78, Merrill and Mary Lowe were called by the Area Authority presiding over Beaver Stake (Elder Dane Leavitt)  to be the Area Family History Advisers for six stakes in Southern Utah.  The Stakes are Beaver, Minersville, Panguitch, Escalante, Kanab and Kanab Kaibab.  Elder Leavitt came to our home this morning and we thought he was just coming to visit with us about the Indexing program we have been involved in.  Imagine our shock when he didn't even mention the Indexing program.  Instead he cut right to the chase and invited us to participate in something bigger and better.  We were overwhelmed!  We will be working with Stake Presidents, High Counselors and Family History Consultants, training and advising and assisting.   How inadequate we are.  We have just barely learned how to spell "Family History" and we have no idea how to find a lost ancestor.  We'll have to take a crash course and become experts in a hurry.   Elder Leavitt set us apart in our kitchen and promised us that we would be equal to the task and that our health would permit us to participate in this great work for as long as we desire and that we would travel safely to the areas we will be visiting in the months to come.  I could hear my mother in the background as she cheered us on.  He asked us about our family and we assured him we had "the best on earth" and that they would support us every step of the way.  Please pray for us.  Mom & Dad