Participation in Family History
Name all of the ways that you can do family history work.
Indexing, Get involved app, records stories, write in your journal, preserve photos, preserve old letters, tell family stories, go to the temple and do temple work, find names to take to temple
Temple Stats:
How many dedicated temples?
Temples under construction?
Temples announced?
201, 51, 115
For if it had not been for the faith and knowledge that was bestowed upon us in that temple by the influence and help of the Spirit of the Lord, our journey would have been like one taking a leap in the dark. To start out…in the winter as it were and in our state of poverty, it would seem like walking into the jaws of death.
President Hawkins, Bishop Walker, Patriarch Young, Sarah Rich early Nauvoo pioneer
Sarah Rich early Nauvoo pioneer
Which is easier to do, indexing or using get involved app?
Get involved app
This is another website that has other records and family trees that you can search in and is free to members of the church.
What is ancestry.com?
What temple is this?
What number temple was it?
Columbia River Temple
107
The leadership of the Church has issued a clarion call to the rising generation to lead the way in the use of technology to experience the spirit of Elijah, to search out their ancestors, and to perform temple ordinances for them. Much of the heavy lifting in hastening the work of salvation for both the living and the dead will be done by you young people.
Elder Bednar, Elder Renlund, Elder Holland, Elder Cook
Elder Cook
What does this say
John & Jane
Who dedicated the Columbia River temple?
President Gordon B. Hinckley
But how are they to become saviors on Mount Zion? By building their temples, erecting their baptismal fonts, and going forth and receiving all the ordinances, baptisms, confirmations, washings, anointings, ordinations and sealing powers upon their heads, in behalf of all their progenitors who are dead, and redeem them.
Andy Reid, Ezra Taft Benson, Oliver Cowdery, Joseph Smith,
Joseph Smith
Who can attach records and edit/expand family trees
You!
Anyone!
True or False?
People who have heard family stories over and over are better able to overcome challenges in their life and have higher self esteem.
Psychologist Robyn Fivush - "Family stories have a profound impact on our lives by shaping our sense of identity, building emotional connections within families, and providing a framework for understanding our own experiences, leading to higher self-esteem, lower anxiety, and a greater sense of meaning and purpose in life; essentially, the more we know about our family history, the better equipped we are to navigate our own lives."
Name one of the 3 temples in early church history that had the land/site dedicated but were never built?
Independence Temple
Far West Temple
Adam-ondi-Ahman Temple
“We need more workers to accomplish [this] wonderful work. Temple work is of as much benefit to the young and the active, as it is to the aged. The young man needs his place in the temple even more than his father and his grandfather; and the young girl just entering life, needs the spirit, influence and direction that come from participation in the temple ordinances.”
Joseph Smith, Parley Pratt, John Widtsoe, Michael Jordan
John Widtsoe
What does this say?
Will C. Gatt
What is the world’s largest collection of genealogical records is housed in a secure vault located in the mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah.
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints built it in 1965 to preserve and protect records of importance)
the Granite Mountain Records Vault
This temple is where Preisthood keys were restored by the prophet Elijah, Moses, and Elias.
We can be inspired all day long about temple and family history experiences others have had. But we must do something to actually experience the joy ourselves. I invite you to prayerfully consider what kind of sacrifice—preferably a sacrifice of time—you can make [to] do more temple and family history work.
President Nelson, President Grant, President McKay, President Kimball
President Nelson