Aquatic Gardens

On Saturday July 17, we gathered together the front of chapel and carpooled to the Kenilworth Aquatic Garden. Five sisters and three children attended. We are amazed by the beauty of the water lilies and Lotus. We walked around the garden and took beautiful pictures. It was a hot day and after an hour or so we left to return home.

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Family History Fireside

On the last Sunday evening in May 2021, the Branch Presidency invited Jared Lin, a genealogy enthusiast and friend of the Branch, to present his experiences at the Branch Family History Fireside. Dan Bendall, our Branch Temple and Family History Leader conducted the fireside, with Adam Fugal translating. The virtual fireside on Zoom began with an opening prayer by Debbie Bendall.

Jared introduced FamilySearch with its advantages and challenges. FamilySearch is a crucial tool in creating family trees, establishing family history records, and preparing records for temple ordinances. It is based on cloud storage and allows from all over the world to cooperate in building a family tree, thus saving time and effort, and allowing us to see the results easily. However, it is an open platform like Wikipedia and is accessible by everyone, thus allowing more errors to occur.

Jared demonstrated some important and unique features of the Chinese Familysearch.org site, including the Family tree functions, various Search methods, creation of Memories, fun family history activities, and preparing records for temple work. He showed some personal examples in establishing a family tree map and getting to know his ancestors. Then Jared turned some time to his wife, Ruth Lin, to share an experience she had in finding an ancestor.  The closing prayer was offered by Ben Tsai.

Brother Lin invited his whole family to attend this special fireside. To them, it was most meaningful, because they are part of Jared's family history. In total, over 30 people attended the virtual fireside, including participants from Maryland, Virginia, Fiji, and Taiwan.  We thank Jared for taking the time to prepare the slides and to show us the neat things he has accomplished so far in his family history. Thank you for sharing with us the joy of genealogy work.

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Young Women's Pizza Party

 

On Saturday, May 22, the Montgomery Branch Young women had a Farewell/Welcome pizza party to say goodbye to Sister Urbina and to welcome Sister Smith. Sister Urbina and her mother delivered pizza to all of the young women.  They started out with a Get to know Jenny game by guessing the answers to questions about Jenny. Then they played a general Get to know you game for Jenny to get to know the Young Women. Lastly, Sister Urbina shared one last message about the importance of relationships in our lives.

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Relief Society Picnic Activity Needwood Park

On May 22, 2021, the Relief Society hosted an activity at Lake Needwood. The Zhao, Fugal, and Wei families attended. They took a nice walk around the lak and then had a picnic in the park. Since it was the first activity after the pandemic, the sisters and brothers were all very excited, they enjoyed the nice weather and beautiful lake view very much. In addition, since it was close to Brother Wei's 30th birthday, so everyone celebrated with him by bringing tons of yummy food (e.g., Zhao family's grilled chicken legs, Fugal family's spring rolls). Cayleigh even made a watermelon birthday cake which looked so awesome and fun. Everyone had a good time since they had not see each other for a while. We are so grateful that our Heavenly Father has been taking care of us and bringing us love among sisters and brothers.

Sister Yangyang Deng

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Youth doing service projects during the Covid19 pandemic

Not enough credit is given to our youth leaders and the young men that are willing to get out of the house to do service projects. These are just some of the service projects the young men have done during the Covid19 pandemic. They are an incredible group of young men from Kentland's and Montgomery Branch. 

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