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6/22/2024

RS Family History

On a very hot and muggy day, the Relief Society held a FamilySearch activity night at the Kentlands Chapel from 5pm to 7pm on Saturday, June 22. Li-Fang Tsai conducted the activity. During the first half hour, everyone enjoyed salad and chicken and socializing with each other.

After listening to the song, “Today I Walked Where Jesus Walked,” Sister Tsai shared a personal story about a pair of shoes which she wore to many different places, including Taiwan and Utah. Charles Huang told a story about her grandmother buying him a pair of new shoes, which he only wore once for a choir concert and never wore again. Sara Huang related a story of her returning the gifts that her younger brother gave her from his business trips. She felt that the gifts had no meaning for her, but her brother was sad. Somehow, she kept possession of one of the gifts, which was a baby pair of shoes for Richard. Xinqiu Chong shared a story of her grandmother making and sewing a pair of shoes every year for her household with her own hands. Abbey talked about a story of her father buying shoes for Cayleigh when they visited Hong Kong, he also washes their dirty shoes became as white as new.

Next, Ben Tsai showed a video of a Chinese training for the FamilySearch Family Tree feature. He then demonstrated some of the features of Family Tree in Chinese, listed a few ways to find help for FamilySearch, and emphasized that using FamilySearch should be fun. Margery Anderson, our branch family history specialist, also explained some important features of FamilySearch during Brother Tsai presentation.

The last half hour allowed attendees to work on their own FamilySearch tasks and to ask questions of Sister Margery Anderson.

6/19/2024

2024-0617 to 06-19 Youth High Adventure trip

The youth of Kentland's and Montgomery worked really hard back in April to hold a fundraiser to make this high adventure camping happen on June 17-18th. After many meetings and adjustments, the leaders finalized going to Calleva's Trough Outfitters in Romney West Virginia where the youth canoed two days along the Potomac River. The kids had an awesome time playing paddling along the river, splashing each other, going over rapids, having canoes flipped over, playing games with each other, bearing their testimonies, fishing, making big fires, and giving out paper plate awards.

High adventure- high adventure was fine even though you weren’t able to shower for three whole days. I got to help make breakfast and was even awarded the best pancake maker played award at the end of the trip. We were canoeing for two days and got to canoe about 17 miles and many hours. Although this was tiring, I had a lot of fun I was able to talk to, Amelia and sister Harding. -Cayleigh Zhao

Our Kentlands 2024 high adventure, canoeing through "the Trough" on the Potomac, took a super long 17 miles but was also beautiful and fun. As my last youth trip before I head to college, it was really memorable to bunk in the priests tent one last time, as well as participate in a spiritual fireside led by newly appointed Bishop Acker. As desperate times call for desperate measures, I figured out how to shower with a hose, and nearly used dawn platinum soap before finding normal body wash. Some memorable moments were the rope swings, flooding the canoe with Sebastian, spotting (but unable to catch) huge fish in the river, dad losing my drone, making the paper plate awards, and saying goodbye to Davis Turley and Liam Christensen. -Clayton Zhao