Melva Gifford

Took some notes on a family history class. It was supposed to be 10-15 minutes but too the hour.

• When you do work for your ancestors you are establish a relationship to your past. When you meet each other in our next lives, You’ve already established a relationship. And they’ll be pretty happy about you doing their work.
• If you like the topic offamily history, volunterr to be a helper for new people.
• Video: getting started step 3 finding challengin information, is available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Q63ZeqB18
• Setting up a watch for a certain name.

1. when you’re logged into family search.org.
2. Go to the desired name.
3. Directly under the ancestor’s name are three choices: View Tree; Watch; and View my relationship.
4. Click on watch and that ancestor’s name and direct link will be put on the second from the top menu of the web site. The one called lists.
5. Then when you log in, in the future that name/person is waiting for you for quick access.

• It will also tell you of changes xxxxx
• People can reserve a name up to two years. After two years it can be opened up for others to do the work. If you insist upon doing it yourself even though it’s been two years you can renew your management over the name by starting another two years.
• If you see a name that has been reserved and no work has been done on that person for quite a while, you can contact that person and volunteer to help them.
• It is good to not put too much on your plate. Maybe work on about 5 names instead of 200. That way others have a chance. Some people try to see if ward members can help with names. That can be challenging sometimes.
• If a work is on hold by someone else I was told there was an area to find ‘settings’. (I looked and could not find it. Then go to notifications. Click on weekly update and you can be notified of any changes on that name since last week.
• Click on the ‘notifications’ on the web page to learn about new changes/ improvements on the website.
• How can you check if information on a person is accurate? There is a link to grave.org that takes photographs of graves and provides the deceased children and parent info.
• There should also be a section where you can check record such as census etc. Be warned that some census info is not accurate as some of the info was obtained from neighbors if the person at the house was not home or a child who is not the parent’s biological child may not be related but may still counted as such. Also some people will change their name.

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I attended a presentation on how we can better communicators when discussing politics. This is the second half of my notes.  Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

There are four types/personalities of people.

1.Determine

• Only they win.
• Want to make others look like fools
• Howard Zin revised the history books
• news content is highly politicized
• certain people want and are willing to lie so they can win.
• Some people resort to bullying to win
• some will concentrate upon intense and’s rather than results unless it favors their course.
• Do a search on YouTube for kindergarten of Eden Evan sayet

2.Day dreamers:

• share mainstream values because it’s easy.
• May lean left or right.
• Does like talking about politics.
• Follows the crowd. Everyone is turning away.
• Distrust of both parties.
• Distress people who ridicule
• they are comfortable not knowing the details of current events. To address these people you need to make current issues relatable to them.

3.Diluted:

• pride themselves of being well-informed.
• They enjoy debating. Armed with supporting facts and data.
• Rely on mainstream media and culture for information.
• See themselves as mainstream. Like to be part of the crowd.

4.Civil Warriors:

• they know they are the mainstream.
• Believe passionately in their cause. Effectively communicate their message.
• Attract people to their cause.
• Maintain their drive.
• Inspire people to act

How to market information:

• Become an expert. Find out what interests neighbors about your topic.
• Present your information in a remarkable way.
• Disrupt the schema and People’s predefined ideas.
• Make it easy to tell your friends

Tunnel training:

• We appeal on issues through emotion and logic, facts and figures, and personal example. Be careful to overload information to make your point. This will turn people off

Convincing the Day dreamers:

• Illustrate how liberal ideas will hurt people they intend to help.
• Show how liberals play unfair to the poor and middle class and women. The very people they want to help.
• Show them there is a growing movement from liberal politicians.
• Show how liberal politicians reduce and eliminate choice. We move labels by talking about right versus wrong, common sense versus nonsense but not liberal

Managing the bowl:

• Learn beyond the core and practice.
• Have graphs, pictures”.
• Make it a declaration. Breathe deeply.

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Impaled: sticking an object into another object. Someone turns PALE from blood lost from being imPALEd by a knife.

Impelled: encouraging action or motivating someone to action. This may not work as well but its what I have. There are two Ls as in more than one person. You want to imE(Encourage –eLL(others) to actin.

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I attended How to get motivated seminar and took notes on various motivational speakers as well as people selling a product. Here are some comments by Ryan Oliver. Any misinformation or misquotes is the fault of the note taker.

• Real estate can provide a source of income each month.
• You can build your dream or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
• Never put yourself in a position where you have to ask them your financial words.
• No one can take away your knowledge.
• Rental income pays you during retirement.
• Self direct your retirement account by real estate notes on properties.
• Crisis creates opportunity. No one can fire us from our properties.
• Lasting well occurs during recovery. Learn how to make deals.
• Some people profit from quick cash deals. You get a discount on the first investment and sell it to a cash payer.
• Cash flow your income must always be positive.
• Seek help someone who has experience. Competent investments result in fast deals.
• Have property managers handle your property. They usually charge 7 to 10% of income
• by direct inventory. A useful place to begin is residences that currently have tenants

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I attended a book of Mormon / Emergency preparedness conference and this is a presentation titled Unknown Mormon Doctrine.  Any misinformation or inaccurate info is blamed on my bad note taking.

• William Penn, a founding father, said “I am ready to believe them of the Jewish race” when talking about Native Americans
• Two books: view of the Hebrews by Ethan Smith. And The 10 tribes. Neither author mentioned Joseph Smith and Joseph Smith never mentioned either author
• Presenters book Jehovah’s holy days in the heartland of North America.
• To check with the heartland theory, she wants to see if the people live the Law of Moses.
• They did ram, silver, lambs, wheat, barley, block, goats, palms
• Jacob 4:5 love of the Law of Moses.
• One of the books talks about a relic where Horan was a holy object. The Observer got permission open the horn and found parchment inside. He sent it to a linguistics and found out it was Hebrew
• Presenters Forbes.com/sites
• email:kenkroguekrogup@Gmail.com
• William Penn, a founding father, said “I am ready to believe them of the Jewish race. I mean of the stock of the 10 tribes. They agree in rights. They recon by moons. They offer their first fruits. They have a kind of face of the Tabernacles.”
• 37 Scriptures of the book of Mormon talk about living the Law of Moses.
• 15+ Scriptures show how the capital of Moses.
• This is simulator to the 80s on how they treat their women.
• Jarom 4:5 we keep the law of Moses
• the book Mormon gives us that who what where and why
• Omni 21:19 moons.
• Book: King Benjamin speech
• Jacob for: 11 offer up fruits
• These of the Tabernacles. Note the actions of offering given before Bridgman speech. Also King Benjamin son Mosiah is coordinated as King. In Native American culture the chief is usually the poorest of the tribe as he gives his benefits to others. The same is said of hacking Benjamin gave his resources in service to the people
• The seventh day is called sapot in Native American language Jeremiah 1:5. One visitor to a Native American tribe notice on one day how all the tents were closed and the people stayed within the tents. The people were quiet
• Rites on how the Native Americans treat the dead are similar to Jewish culture. They put rocks on top of the casket because rocks last forever
• Separation of women: when a young woman has her first menstrual cycle she spent seven days alone. At the end she burns everything that she touched. She eats food with the short stick. At the end they are now ready to marry.
• City of refuge: each Native American nation has a town of no blood or the city of refuge.
• Jewish deity laws: tribes don’t use knives a certain meals. Temples existed amongst Israelites and Native Americans

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I attended a presentation on how we can better communicators when discussing politics.  Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• Those that want to slam conservatism will call us racists, bigoted for the rich at the expense of the poor and uneducated. They say we promote the war on women or that we are anti-environmentalist, and want to deprive poor of healthcare. They say we represent old rich white people who are intolerant and ignorant.
• We need to disrupt this schema by showing that the accusations do not fit. You do this by forcing people to think. They might believe that you are an exception if they know you personally. They may try to make the acquisitions fit a global group. Talking have a conversation with those that feel differently.
• You conversation must be genuine. Then easily examples of our actions and other conservative actions who help the poor, protect the environment, or nondiscriminatory. We do this by collecting people stories of experiences where they have preformed tasks that break the mold of labels given to conservatives. It’s important to include specific names and events that you can later reference.
• You share your concerns legitimately such as when you present a thought it might relate to your concerns of caring about the health care of the elderly.
• Connect with your community. Learn and listen with curiosity to others who have different opinions. Grass details of the other opinion. Don’t listen to create a rebuttal. Show restraint when conversing with a different opinion.

Problems of common core education:

• Its origins to not come from the states.
• One size is not fit all
• There was never a pilot or tested prior to implementation. Not internationally benchmarked. Test it is expensive.
• Not developed appropriately
• aligned curriculum skips the founding fathers
• It takes parents and school boards away from influencing the children’s education.

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Good: statistics

Bad:   sastistics

Much of the problem of my spelling on this is my pronouncement of the word. STATs is the short version of STATistics. if i can remember that, I should do a better job on spelling it correctly. You may face the same challenge.

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This is the second half of a presentation I attended by Gregory a Hudnall. He is from Hope 4 Utah. He gave some valuable information about suicide. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• 8 to 14% of those who suicide have been bullied by their peers this even happened the church. There were even some church kids who hid their peers clothes while at the temple
• The LG BT community is at high risk of suicide because of persecution for their behavior. There is a perception that because of the strong stance of the church against same gender relationships that the person themselves as being rejected. The church is trying to emphasize that we need to love individual no matter their life choice.
• The youth needs to learn resilience. Some of this is handicapped when we have participation trophies instead of two victory trophies. Adults don’t want to hurt the children’s feelings so they don’t hand out awards for superior skill and effort. Parents attempted to fix the problems of the children that children need to learn failure so they can gain resistance to stronger challenges in the later life.
• We need to create a new generation of kids who will handle failure by participating in failure and they grow to overcome
• QPR Institute:
• If I visit a population new CPR then there would be 12% less desk by heart attack because of being saved by peer
• If someone mentions suicide, the event will usually occur within the next 24 to 48 hours. That is the crucial time for prevention.
• Is someone is a warning sign of suicide wants it may not be a big deal but when it goes to second or third it is extremely important to address the issue and get professional help.
• The warning signs are indicated by what they say, their behavior in the situation
• 60% of those who objected to suicide have has involvement with the court system.
• There is an indirect approach to ask about suicide by asking the person have you felt unhappy. Acknowledge that you’ve seen the dog to a lot of hardships and you wonder how the doing.
• It’s okay to ask them if they attempted to hurt themselves. This will not put the thought into their heads. If they are mentally healthy illness run off their backs but if they already depressed they’ve already thought about suicide you will not be planting the idea to their heads.
• If you can ask the question about how they feel find someone who can ask them
• Parents may say I’m concerned and care about you I’m worried that you have gone through a lot of hardships and you may be tempted to hurt yourself.
• When someone does need help they need to be referred to professionals. If there is an immediate threat to suicide and you need help in preventing it, you need to involve calling the police.
• Wasatch mental phone call: 801 – 373 – 7390 will be answered by a licensed therapist.
• Safe up, is a Phone app that can be installed on your child’s phone have them go through it and if they get depressed inquiries and use it.
• Crisis line is 741-740 –start
• Kids are often more willing to text their concerns rather than vocalize them.

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