25 August 2023

Open the Heavens through Temple and Family History Work


Do you have ward members who are struggling? President and Sister Nelson shared how family history and temple work can open the heavens. Excerpts from the talk can be found here. Open the Heavens Through Temple and Family History Work  

This was the promise made by Sister Nelson.

"Sacrifice does indeed bring forth the blessings of heaven.4 I have been blessed to find many ancestors who I feel confident were ready to make covenants with God and to receive their essential ordinances. Over time, I realized that if I was working on an overwhelming project and I was out of time, energy, and ideas, if I would make a sacrifice of time by finding the ordinance-qualifying information for some ancestors or by going to the temple to be proxy for them, the heavens opened and the energy and ideas started flowing. Somehow I had enough time to meet my deadline. It was totally impossible, but it would happen every time. Temple and family history work bring me a joy that is truly not of this world."