Photos of myself and my family

This is a picture of my family: My three brothers and five sisters from the left to the right José Rodolfo, Oscar, Antonio, Alicia, Hilda Beatriz, Me (Rebeca) Audelia, Laura, and Victoria. My father, Sabino Martínez de León and my mother Josefina Pineda Posadas are sitting on the sofa.

This is a picture of my siblings and I when we were children from the left to the right: Audelia, Victoria, Alicia (carrying my youngest brother Oscar) Laura, Antonio, Rebeca, and the ones in front of me are José Rodolfo and Hilda Beatriz.

 These three pictures show the house were my family and I lived when we were children. When I was seven years old, my family emigrated to Nuevo León, México.

When it rained, the water was stored here to do the laundry, take shower, and any other house duties, even to drink it.

When we were children, we used to eat pingüicas, a fuit with sweet pulp.

To get home we needed to climb this mountain.

In this school my oldest sister (Alicia) and I started our elementary education.

This is a panoramic view of the town "El Realejo" where my parents and seven of their children were born.

This is my father with one of his best friends, Pedro. He got cancer and died this year.They were friends
for more that sixty years.










This is my aunt Herminia Pineda posadas, my mother´s sister, and her daughter María del Rosario Pineda Posadas.

Pedigree chart

Here is my pedigree chart.

Family History goals

Answer the Following Questions—Type your answers below the questions:

1. Write your favorite quote from the provided list.

“A life that is not documented is a life that within a generation or two will largely be lost to memory. What a tragedy this can be in the history of a family. Knowledge of our ancestors shapes us and instills within us values that give direction and meaning to our lives” Bridges and Eternal Keepsakes

DENNIS B. NEUENSCHWANDER of the First Quorum of the Seventy

2. Write your feelings about family history work.

I feel that I need to do more. I am struggling to keep my journal, but I want to do it. The quote I cited on question one made me feel the need to keep it. With this course I understood that family search is more than just doing genealogy. It is writing journals, family books and book of remembrance. I love it and I want to have more time to work in this issue.

3. Define in writing a character trait that you desire to work on in order to realize more success in your future family history efforts.

Perseverance, time management, and set goals. I think I need these three things in order to work better in family history.

4. Write specific goals you feel to set for yourself concerning your future work in family history and temple service. Consider breaking the goals into short, medium, and long-term.
5. Identify challenges that may derail your goals.

Some of the challenges that may derail my goals in this duty will be the time management, the amount of things I need to do at home, and the other callings I have in the church.

6. Make plans that will enable you to realize your goals. Don’t just identify what you want to do, also state how you will do it.

I will set specific time to keep my journal and I will set it as one of the main things I need to do during the day. I also will gather pictures about my family and use the questions given in this course to interview my relatives and ask my parents about their ancestors and the histories they remember about them.

Create your own goals—Fill out the chart below with your own goals. They can be Family History related or just general life goals. Set goals and use them.

Submit your responses—Copy your answers above and the chart below and paste them into the comment box of the corresponding iLearn assignment.

My Dreams	Goals
Gathering pictures of my family and ancestors	Daily: ·         Write two daily messages to relatives asking to send me 3 representative pictures of their family. ·         Organize the pictures received in a folder by relationship. ·         Keep a record of the families that have sent the pictures. Weekly: ·         Accommodate pictures by family ·         Check if all of the pictures are in chronological order ·         Place the pictures in order per family in a book Deadline: January 31, 2014
My parents’ and grand parents’ histories	Daily: ·         Send a message to my brothers and sisters asking about the best histories they remember from our parents and grandparents ·         Set a folder for each family members and place the histories on each folder Weekly: ·         Accommodate each history on each folder ·         Place the histories in order ·         Begin the format of the book and copy each history in a word file Deadlines: March 30, 2014
Keeping my journal	Daily: ·         Reflect on the experiences I had during the day ·         Write the most significant experiences I have during the day ·         Keep a reminding message  “write on your journal” on my computer Weekly: ·         If I could not write on my journal daily I will write a weekly summary of the experiences I had during the week. ·         Check if I don’t missed a day if so, I will write the experiences I remember from that day Deadline: I will do it for a Month from December 15, 2013 to January 15,2014
Doing my father’s book	Daily: ·         Write one of the experiences I remember I have heard from him. ·         Place the histories by theme. ·         Set the format of each history he has related Weekly: ·         Visit my father each week. ·         Interviewing my father about his life (I will use “Building a book about” to ask questions about his life and experiences. Deadline: June 30, 2014