User:Rodpotter

I served as MLS in the Santiago East Mission with an assigned ward, Open Chapel events (traveling mini visitor’s center) and office support during 2014 and 2015. I was able to refresh my Spanish from 50 yrs before while serving the West Spanish American Mission in California. While on the mission, the missionaries passed out “Many” referral cards for Family History that linked the Non-Members to the nearest FHC. About 80% of the Centers didn’t have a schedule published in their Wiki Web Site. Most had let their email password lapse through non-use (2 months) and could not access the center Email to receive questions. I (off the record) contacted many of the FHC’s in Chile and sent them a video in Spanish instructing them how to update their Center Schedule. I was blessed with some success in getting some websites changed and 18 added to online access. I knew that when I returned, I needed to find a way to help Spanish Speaking FHC’s. Thankfully, I am now a Wiki team member with hopes to fulfill this work that I saw then as a great missionary tool for this world and for those who have passed on. Many people need help and all the Chapels in Chile have a huge fence with a Swiss lock on the gate and no FHC schedules visible.

I am so blessed to have this opportunity to serve where I am called but hope that one of those areas will be to help centers develop their Wiki page and post their hours of operation. I love these people and feel like somehow I can be in His service to help them find their ancestors.

I live in SLC 2 miles west of the largest FHL in the world. Some call it Zion. I call it home. I served in Zion in Santiago Chile.