This past year has created many unexpected and difficult challenges. In addition to concerns about the Corona virus itself, there is isolation from friends and family, church services interrupted, temples and family history libraries and centers closed. It has also created situations that have brought wonderful blessings into our lives. I am grateful for the… Read More The Plan of Happiness
Wherever we go in today’s world one of the first things we do is to get connected to Wi Fi. Once connected, we are able to open up virtually innumerable lines of communication and access unlimited information. Prior to the internet our access to information and communication was limited, came at greater expense, and was… Read More Connecting
Wherever we go in today’s world one of the first things we do is to get connected to Wi Fi. Once connected, we are able to open up virtually innumerable lines of communication and access unlimited information. Prior to the internet our access to information and communication was limited, came at greater expense, and was… Read More Connecting
Many of us live busy, hectic lives. The thought of trying to fit one more thing in our bulging schedules can often be daunting. In an article titled: 15 Minutes a Day, with The Family History Guide , there are some great suggestions that may be help you devote more time to doing this important… Read More What Can You do in 15 Minutes?
Recently I was reflecting on the many blessings that have come into my life since being called to serve at the Granite Family History Center over a year ago. At the time I was called I was both overwhelmed and surprised that the Lord would want me to serve in a calling I knew so… Read More How the Granite Family History Center Has Blessed My Life
For decades, George Wise reigned supreme as the family history enigma. He was the great-grandfather that I never met; the grandfather that my mother knew only by name; and the father that my grandmother had not seen since childhood. Grandma’s parents divorced when she was a child and her mother moved with her from Indiana… Read More Finding George (A Hundred Million Miracles)
All parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles! Do you have someone getting ready to go BACK TO SCHOOL? Consider arming your students with stories from their own family history. A study done in the mid 1990s by Dr. Marshall Duke and Dr. Robyn Fivush found that “the more children knew about their family’s history, the stronger… Read More Back to School
On Easter Sunday 183 years ago (April 3, 1836), Jesus Christ, Moses, Elias and Elijah appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple. The keys of the priesthood restored at that time provided the power whereby eternal families could be established in these the latter days. The importance of eternal families and… Read More Sealing Keys Restored
Wonderful blessings come by doing temple and family history work. Sometimes we may think this work only helps and blesses those on the other side of the veil. Not true– we also receive blessings for ourselves and for our families right here and now as we do family history and temple work. Here are just… Read More Blessings on Both Sides of the Veil
I have been inspired and personally fortified as I have been reviewing the messages delivered to us on our most recent and historic General Conference. Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Saturday afternoon session, expressed, “When we gather our family histories and go to the temple on behalf… Read More May 2018 – Director’s Message