478. Family History, and Work for the dead -- OUR GREATEST RESPONSIBILITY! I'll be starting some mini-lessons of what I'm learning! LOVE IT!
Family History! I have mentioned before my great interest in Genealogy -- as I first called it. Now we refer to it as Family History, and I love the history part as much as the pedigree and family group charts. One quote I read in my teen age years really stuck with me -- from the Prophet Joseph Smith: "The greatest responsibility in the world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead." In D & C 128:15 is says: "Let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as ... they without us cannot be made perfect---neither can we without our dead be made perfect." Each prophet since him have made many statements that say the same things. "President Gordon B. Hinclkey stated that those who wait beyond the veil for the irdinances of the gospel are in desperate circum...