A couple of years ago Elder Bednar spoke in General Conference about family history and temple work and encouraged the youth to get involved in this important endeavor. The youth in the Hooper Utah Stake, where our daughter Cindy Walker and her family live, caught the vision. They have spend many hours researching their family lines and preparing names for temple work. The youth would then take the names to the Salt Lake City Temple and do the proxy baptisms.
Their parents and other endowed members would then take these names through the initiatory work and an endowment session. Finally, these people would be sealed together as families.
We had the opportunity this past Friday to go to the SLC Temple and assist with the sealings. For one family, ten children were sealed to their parents. We had the opportunity to be two of the "children". It was a neat experience.
We can see that there is much work to do on both sides of the veil. And missionary work embraces family history and temple work as well.
We are now in our final preparation stage for the MTC in Provo. We report tomorrow morning between 10:40 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. They'll have a stream of missionaries arriving all morning. It's exciting to be a part of this wonderful work!
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ReplyDeleteLove you guys and hope that your first week has gone well.