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| This was the sunset tonight as I left the Cannon Activities Center |
July 30, 2017
Had another wonderful Sabbath. Our Sacrament meeting
centered around Family History. A few things I was prompted to do as I listened
to the speakers were:
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Do family history research-you will find
something important.
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Write, write, write your stories
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“Turn out” as Elder Bednar spoke about at the
MTC. It will help you with the behaviors you want to change. As you turn out
and think about others, the desires of your heart will come true. Rather than
praying for gifts of the Spirit you want, dive into family research and
Heavenly Father will open the path for you to receive the gifts you desire.
Focus away from yourself and focus on others.
Sarina, from Mongolia spoke about her experience. She said
it is easy to do. She started on familysearch.org and found over 100 names that
she was baptized for on her birthday.
If we committed 1 hour per week to family history= it takes
four weeks at this rate to find one name to take to the temple. One name per
month= twelve names to take to the temple each year. This little bit can change
into millions of people over a lifetime.
The invitation to do family history is out. A young college
student was asked by her bishop to sacrifice one hour per week to do family
research. She insisted that after her schoolwork and job and studies were
complete, that she did not have any time left. The bishop asked her each week
for four weeks if she had done anything on his challenge. Her answer was
always, “No, I don’t have time.” The bishop then asked her what her hardest
class was. Her answer was “math.” Although she studied and studied, she could
not understand it. He then promised her that if she would do first, her
research that hard things would become easy. She took the challenge and to her
surprise, when she read her math studies, she understood it clearly.
In Malachi 4:5-6New King James Version (NKJV)
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
This scripture is sometimes only
thought of as us turning our hearts to the fathers, but the first part suggests
that as we do our family history, the door to ministering Angels will open to
us as we open the door to them through family history. They will help us with
hard things. They have much to offer us in wisdom and power. We can enable them
to help and serve us in our work here.
Read Pres. Monson’s Conference
address April 2012.
I
was prepared to teach my Temple Preparation class, but Mandy, from Taiwan, came
and since she has already had the lessons, I addressed some questions that she
had to prepare her for her endowments. She will be leaving for a mission in
November for a mission to Toronto, Canada, Mandarin speaking. She is a lovely
young woman and she and her sister are the only members of the Church.
Sister
Currit invited a young woman from her ward to share dinner with us as she is
alone here. Her husband is in England waiting for his visa which could be, at
least, 2 months.
Talked
to Scott, David, Esther, Joseph, and Matthew and Dan on the phone today.
Tonight,
Laie held a musical fireside at the Cannon Center. It was centered on Christ. The
singing was amazing.
