Wednesday, March 13, 2013

It's time to get advantage of technology in family history work

In my studies with D&C 128:14-18, Joseph Smith taught us the following principles about an importance of baptism for the dead from part of family history work. 1. the salvation of our dead ancestors is "essential to our salvation." 2. Baptism for the dead is the "most glorious of all subjects belonging to the everlasting gospel." 3. Baptism for the dead helps to prevent the earth from being smitten with a curse. The first principle explains that our lives are closely tied to our ancestors' lives, and it's impossible for us to become perfect without them. Also, it's impossible for ancestors to be perfect without us. The second principle represents that the Lord shows the love and mercy to make it possible for all of us including ancestors and those who did not know gospel to receive the same blessings, and be judged on the same terms. The third principle defines that the whole work of God will fail and be wasted without a welding link between the fathers and the children which is by the work for the dead and sealing. We can imagine that we can't be a perfect, and His work will be nothing without the family history work. Currently, we have a beautiful technology in our lives, and some of us including me tend to procrastinate finding our ancestors using the technology because it's too much of hassle to learn the way to use the family history website like ancestry.com. Come on! We are CS people. Compared to the past, it's much easier and more effective to find our ancestors because some of our ancestors could connect with ancestors from others online. It's time to start playing with the family history website!

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