Family History Friday!

It's another Friday.  That means it's another day for Family History focus! :D

If you haven't already, try this out.  Find a family member or two (maybe one for you and a friend or you and your spouse) that you can both go do temple work for.  Plan a day that you and this "other" person can do it.  Make it a whole day thing.  Do all the temple work together.  If you and your spouse are doing a couple the whole way through--end it with the sealing.  This may be one of those days that you remember forever because of how everything made you feel.

"In [an] epistle, written one hundred and fifty years ago, Joseph Smith stated: 'The Saints have the privilege of being baptized for . . . their relatives who are dead . . . who have received the gospel in the spirit . . . through . . . those who have been commissioned to preach to them. . . . Those saints who neglect it in behalf of their deceased relatives, do it at the peril of their own salvation.' (History of the Church, 4:231; italics added.)

"The prophet Elijah committed the keys for vicarious work to Joseph Smith in the Kirtland Temple (see D&C 110:13–16) to fulfill the Lord's promise that 'he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers' (D&C 2:2).

"Through further revelation to Joseph Smith and subsequent prophets, there has come an understanding of and provision for temple work and the family history effort that supports it. Every prophet since Joseph Smith has emphasized the imperative need to provide all ordinances for ourselves and our deceased ancestors." ~Richard G. Scott, "Redemption: The Harvest of Love", Ensign, 1990