When she arrived I started showing her. We pulled up Johanne Berthelsdatter and then I showed her how important it is to check for possible duplicates of her name to make sure you merge any and all duplicate listings.
While searching for Johanne over these past couple weeks I had never ran into this until today. As I searched for her duplicate (which I had done numerous times before) something different appeared today. I found a little boy by the name of Jens Christen who had a mother with her same name. I searched AOFORSIDE for the Danish birth records from 1795-1804 and found his birth in the 1800's. He only lived for 10 days. I was overcome with emotion as I not only had found the correct Johanna and her two daughters last week, but now I found her only son. I was so happy and filled with once again the same gratitude I felt yesterday. I knew that we were being led by the spirit and it was truly a blessing we found that baby today.
Now this entire family can be not only together on our family tree, but most importantly sealed together and have all their work done in the temple.
After yesterdays experience in the temple parking lot, I realized today of the important work I must do. I realized as I do this the Lord will bless my life with added strength, determination, and courage to make it through these health challenges. I must not give up when times get tough and instead lose myself in the service of others.
Its not what You Do that is important when serving others is that YOU DO IT!
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