It is amazing and rewarding work and very dear to my heart.

The title of today's blog was the last thing I wrote on yesterday's blog. Read on.

I woke up this morning with the sound of my cell phone to tell me I had a text. It was from a friend and she wrote," Great8 things to come, have a good day." I think maybe there is something good in the air.

I was thinking a lot about the couple, the Tanner's, I saw yesterday. Her heritage is from Spain; she had linked herself to the ancestor who came from there and knows her mother's family ties that far back. All I can say is "WOW!"

Now--I know there was an explorer that came with Hernan Cortez by the name of Fransisco de Ulloa. I don't have the links yet but an impression I had was to follow through this time and work from back there to my Ulloa line through my paternal great-grandmother, Maria Elena Eduiges Ulloa, whose photo I had on my blog a few days ago. That line has always fascinated me. They were very much the independent kind of thinkers, you know--out of the box, in a good way of course. They were educated, and knew how to read and write, and were refined. I can tell by the way they dressed. Not at all like "peasants" They (women) dressed in fine dresses and suits with ties for the men. A cut above the rest.

It comes back to my memory that I first met Liz Tanner when she was serving as a temple worker. I even think it was before Mt Timpanogos temple opened. I mentioned I had ancestors that were named the same as the Ulloa explorer. I know she gave me her phone number to call her but I never did. And now I ended up in her ward 10+ years later. But in the meantime I have searched many Ulloa family names in the archives already. There are are so much more to submit like an extraction project of our family names, Sanchez, Munoz, Rodgriguez, Ulloas, Recios. I still have about a dozen more female names that need the endowment work yet to do.

I noticed that one of Liz' ancestors early on in New Mexico that (upteenth) grandmother's last name was Rodriguez! You never know--I may be onto something larger than I could have ever imagined and link our roots to Spain, since that is where the names and language came. The impression I had this morning was to follow through this time and go for it. If I remember correctly one of the discoverers of California was Juan Cabrillo Rodriguez too.

Therefore, "I will go and do the things that the Lord hath commanded for I know he will give no commandment. . . save he shall prepare the way." I Nephi 3:7. Who knows, maybe they won't have to wait until the Millenium to get their work completed. And the beat goes on!





Today was my parents' 69th wedding anniversary, too