A Mormon Woman's Reflections on Life and the Gospel of Jesus Christ

LDS General Conference Session Notes:  Mormon April 2010 Conference

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  Russell M. Nelson Speaks on Mormon Genealogy,  & Undergirding Mormon Doctrine

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, our inborn yearnings are filled when we are linked to our families beyond the veil, said Elder Russell M. Nelson, Mormon apostle, referring to the doctrines of Mormonism.

For those new to this gathering or to this site, “LDS” or “Mormon” are nicknames for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Savior’s restored Church. Mormonism is the name associated with the doctrines and teachings of Christ that are held by those members; more accurately Mormonism represents, to Church adherents, the fulness of the doctrines of Jesus Christ’s gospel and its full authority, restored in our day through the Savior and Father’s own literal re-appearance and divine direction. The message of Mormons, of Mormonism, is a message of import; a message every onlooker should investigate personally and directly and prayerfully (site author).

Methods to find and prepare names for ordinances are becoming easier. Procedures have been simplified so that virtually every member of the Church can participate. No matter your situation, you can participate in this work right now,  

Elder Nelson continued, enumerating ways that each member can become involved in family history (friends of all faiths are welcome in Mormon family history centers worldwide, see familysearch dot org for more details:

• Children can draw family trees.
• Parents can find their ancestors through New Family Search and perform temple work (Mormons build temples today as the Lord’s followers did under His direction anciently. They are beautiful Houses of the Lord, dedicated to His ordinances or initiations into His kingdom on earth, and containing powers and principles by which we can access increasingly the Holy Ghost and grow up in our knowledge of Jesus Christ.)
• Individuals can hold a temple recommend (Mormons, Christian disciples of Christ, are invited to the House of the Lord according to His standards of worthiness and moral cleanliness, and before entering these sacred edifices of peace and purity, they are interviewed and determined to be worthy of that blessing. They need not be perfect, for none of us are, but striving and in keeping with the commandments and teachings of the Church.)
• Older individuals can learn how to use the computer with help to do this saving work.

“New technology makes it easier than ever to fulfill that responsibility; the New Family Search helps identify ancestors, the work done for them, and ways to prepare those individuals’ temple ordinances,” indicated Elder Russell M. Nelson, LDS (Mormon) apostle.

In the past, people worked separately. Now we can work together in building each other’s family tree, shares Elder Nelson.

There’s more work ahead, he averred. “New Family Search may expose duplicate entries or errors previously unrecognized, especially in the case of those with pioneer ancestry.”

Mormon Doctrine Undergirds This  Mormon Temple and Mormon Genealogy Work

We are helping in the exaltation of others as we do this work, testified the LDS apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Nelson.  Joseph Smith asked us to “offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness” and present in the holy temple a “book worthy of all acceptation.”  As we work together, we can accomplish this record, and makes it possible for those ancestors to receive those ordinances if and as they choose, and makes liberty of captives, and links us to others of our ancestors in love. This leads to the exaltation of our families.