Okay so my day has been BUSY!! Came home from work and had dinner and visited with Brian for about two hours. Then I went visiting teaching. Visiting teaching is a great opportunity for the women in the ward to get together, check on each other and make sure everything is okay, and then leave a spiritual message. I just barely got home...threeish hours later. I visit with some great women and they sure like to talk a lot! But the message I gave tonight was about family history and I thought for a quick blog post I would share a great quote.
As members of Christ’s restored Church, we have the covenant responsibility to search for our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the gospel. They without us cannot “be made perfect” (
Hebrews 11:40), and “neither can we without our dead be made perfect” (
D&C 128:15).
Family history work prepares us for the blessings of eternal life and helps us increase our faith and personal righteousness. Family history is a vital part of the mission of the Church and enables the work of salvation and exaltation for all.
President
Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said: “When we research our own lines we become interested in more than just names. … Our interest turns our hearts to our fathers—we seek to find them and to know them and to serve them.”
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It is great to be able to learn about those who came before. Shout out to my aunt and grandmother who do such great work and always tell me about their "dead people" :P They are my inspiration today!
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YAY for "Dead People"! I am just checking in here and then doing dead people and then head to bed. Thanks for the shout out and for remembering Grammy and me!
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