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REL 261 – Importance of Submitting Names to the Temple Becky Johnson Hutchings Why should you slow down and treat your ancestors as individuals when you submit their names for temple ordinances, and how can you do this effectively? As you work with family members and others on their family trees, how can you help them understand the importance of slowing down and treating ancestors as individuals when they submit names for temple ordinances? These are great questions! I think in life we should all slow down in lots of areas. We have become too busy in the hustle and bustle. Regarding this specific question of why we should slow down so we can treat our ancestors as individuals is a simple one. Doing family history and temple ordinances is a privilege that we have as being worthy to hold a temple recommend. I believe that our ancestors watch us as guardian angels in this life. They have a connection to us. We also have a connection to them. We can make this connection more worthwhile if we learn a little bit about our ancestors as I feel that when we do their temple work, these ancestors are in the temple with us. They are waiting with anxious delight to see their work get done, some have been waiting a long time! I firmly believe they will also be meeting us when we get to the other side to thank us for taking the time to do their work. We can help family members understand this concept by helping them get their own testimony of family history and temple ordinances. When our kids go the temple, which is once a month, my husband and I go over the temple names with them and try to find some information about this relative so when our kids are in the temple doing baptism they can know of this connection. My husband used to be the one to do this with them, but now, thanks to this class, I am also able to sit down with our kids and look up names. We can do this by looking for information that may be missing. We can also review family members and look for attached sources that verify the listed information as well as the sources in the “Record Tips” box. Thanks to this class, I also learned how to use the tool called “Possible Duplicates” to check if there are other versions. I also learned to look for missing information in “Search Records” or other family history websites such as Ancestry, My Heritage, or Find My Past. We are very blessed to live during this time and have access to all of this technology. I am also happy that I took this course to learn how to use this technology more effectively. If we listen to President Nelson, we know that our goal in life is to help gather Israel. I hope we are all taking this charge seriously and doing our part.
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