A week or so ago, a friend in the ward offered to babysit my kids so Aaron and I could go to the temple. We arranged for it to be Tuesday night. We were just going to do a normal session. Then, I found out that next Sunday I am teaching a lesson on getting excited about family history work in Sunday School. So, I decided that since Aaron and I had gotten really into family history right before Ivan was born that I would go back and look through some of our stuff.
While doing so, I stumbled across the new family search sight. (www.new.familysearch.org) I've been hearing a ton about this sight forever, because they had just launched it in our Texas stake right before we left, but they hadn't gotten it going in Utah yet. Well it's AWESOME!!! Within five minutes of registering for the sight, I had 10 names ready for temple work, and all I had to do was click the mouse a couple of times.
You'll never guess who some of those names happened to be. My grandma, Maxine Lemmon, and my grandpa, Earl Lemmon, had never been sealed, because of this my dad was never sealed to his parents. There were also a few of Earl's brothers and sisters and himself, that had never been sealed to their parents. We decided that it was time.
So last night, my mom came down and she and Aaron and I had the chance to seal my grandparents, and to seal my dad to his parents. WOW!!! I've felt the Spirit in the temple before, but never like I did last night. There was such a strong feeling of peace and love. It was amazing to me how much more personal the ordinances seemed when I was doing them for people that I had known, people that I love dearly. I thought to myself, "This is why family history, and ordinances for the dead are so important."
The other really awesome part was how much we learned. The sealer doing the sealings took lots of time to instruct us, and ask us questions, and taught us lots of things I had never thought about before. I wish I could say I learned that much every time I went to the temple. Such a special experience. I'm glad my mom got to be there with us.
Anyways, if you haven't checked out the new family search sight (see the link above) then I think you definitely should. It's pretty amazing, and super easy. And if you think all your family work has been done already, you should double check, because you might be surprised.
5 comments:
Wow, Krystal, that really is awesome. I've registered for the sight but haven't really spent much time on it. Maybe I will :)
Love great experiences in the temple!! Troy and I were family history consultants in our other ward and the one thing that was missed the most was sealing the children to the parent's . That was so neat that you were able to do that for your dad!!
That is so amazing Krystal... My dad is in the same boat, and we would like to go one day soon and seal him to his parents (after we baptize my grandmother). I am so happy for your family to experience such an amazing thing
it is cool to do work for family that you have known. I remember doing my grandma's and when we went to seal her to her parents it was.....I'll just say awesome. That's neat that you got it done!
That's amazing Krystal, talk about following a prompting!
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