Temples
Family History Statistics
Who is Elijah
Scriptures on Family History
Apostle Quotes
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The number of temples in operation
What is 156
100
The number of records indexed completed in FamilySearch.
What is 1,324,141,189
100
Elijah was endowed with the priesthood power of God. With this power, he declared to King Ahab the amount of time that no rain would fall upon the land (1 Kgs. 17:1)
What is 3 and a half years?
100
"Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?"
What is 1 Corinthians 15:29?
100
"In addition, many youth have discovered that giving of their time to do family history research and temple work has deepened their testimony of the plan of salvation. It has increased the influence of the Spirit in their lives and decreased the influence of the adversary. It has helped them feel closer to their families and closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. They have learned that this work saves not just the dead; it saves all of us (see D&C 128:18)." HBE
Who is President Henry B. Eyring?
200
The number of temples under constructions, rennovating or announced.
What is 29? (Under Construction- 12, Being Renovated - 3, and Announced - 14)
200
The number of family index records have been completed in 2017
What is 52,790,436?
200
The prophet who foretold of Elijah coming to Joseph Smith and would play an important role and said it would happen "before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord" (Mal. 4:5).
Who is Malachi?
200
"For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit."
What is 1 Peter 4:6
200
This person has taught that the Spirit of Elijah is “a manifestation of the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the divine nature of the family” (“A New Harvest Time,” Ensign, May 1998, 34). RMN
Who is Elder Russell M. Nelson?
300
The name of the temple the Israel had while in the wilderness fleeing from Egypt.
What is portable tabernacle?
300
The number of names in family search (famiysearch.org)?
What is 4+ billion?
300
The common name used today for the spirit of Elijah
What is temple work?
300
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."
What is Malachi 4:5-6
300
Who said "The Spirit of Elijah affects people inside and outside of the Church. However, as members of Christ’s restored Church, we have the covenant responsibility to search out our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the gospel. “They without us should not be made perfect” (Hebrews 11:40; see also Teachings: Joseph Smith, 475). And “neither can we without our dead be made perfect” (D&C 128:15)." DAB
Who is President David A. Bednar?
400
The first LDS temple in modern times built in 1833, that is no longer in use.
What is Kirkland, Ohio?
400
FamilySearch.org was launched in 1999. The number of visitor to the website since then.
What is 308 million?
400
Elijah did not die an ordinary death but was taken up into heaven in this way.
What is chariot/ horses of fire and a whirlwind?
400
"To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse— Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands; and by this ye may know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors."
What is Doctrine and Covenants 110:15-16?
400
Who said "...Doing work for others is accomplished in two steps: first, by family history research to ascertain our progenitors; and second, by performing the temple ordinances to give them the same opportunities afforded to the living.... I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.” HWH
Who is President Howard W. Hunter?
500
The temple in Missouri that was dedicated on April 26, 1838, but was later abandoned.
What is Far West, Missouri
500
The number of visits per day on FamiySearch.org
What is over 10 million?
500
On April 3, 1836, Elijah appeared in the Kirkland Temple and announced that the time had come when Malachi's prophecy was to be fulfilled. He committed this to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery (D&C 110:13-16)
What is the "sealing keys of the priesthood".
500
"...It is sufficient to know, in this case, that the earth will be smitten with a curse unless there is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children, upon some subject or other—and behold what is that subject? It is the baptism for the dead. For we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect. Neither can they nor we be made perfect without those who have died in the gospel also;...."
What is D&C 128:18
500
Who said "I testify that the Spirit of Elijah is touching the hearts of many of Father’s children throughout the world, causing the work for the dead to accelerate at an unprecedented pace. But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences." RGS
Who is Elder Richard G. Scott?
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