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From: "Jorge Todeschini" <>
Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Which Utah temples accept FORs?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:59:45 -0300
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In sum, you can magnify your calling without overstepping your priesthood
leaders.

It is not good to be commanded in all things anyway.

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From: "Mary S. Scott (Michigan)" <>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:38 PM
To: <>
Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Which Utah temples accept FORs?

> The thread's emphasis on priesthood leaders struck a true chord for me. If
> you are interested in some of my thoughts and ideas, please read on.
> Otherwise, feel free to delete this email. ...
>
> While we cannot overstep our priesthood leaders, we can do something that
> might help our wards and stakes in a positive way.
>
> For instance, we can bear our testimonies of family history and temple
> work -- not only in Fast & Testimony meetings but in our classes. We can
> comment positively about the Spirit of Elijah and the powerful influence
> it has been in our lives.
>
> We do not need an official calling to be involved in this work -- we are
> already called to support the three-fold mission of the Church because we
> are a covenant people. We need to help others recognize that ALL roads
> lead to the temple and that we are on the Lord's errand.
>
> We can often tie in our comments about family history and temple work into
> the assignments we are given for sacrament meeting talks. (Our ward had
> wonderful talks about the plan of salvation yesterday but little mention
> of how redeeming the dead fits into that great plan of joyful redemption.)
>
> We can support our priesthood leaders and attend ward & stake temple trips
> as frequently as possible. We can invite others to go with us to the
> temple -- so they don't have to go alone or drive alone. At first we might
> not have many members accepting these invitations but one day we might be
> surprised.
>
> We can use New FamilySearch for our own families and share our feelings
> and results with our families and our ward members.
>
> We might want to add inspirational quotes to our ward bulletins or publish
> a ward newsletter.
>
> We can send encouraging emails to ward members listing something that we
> know might interest them -- a specific website link that we know pertains
> to their own ancestry for example. We can share with them that we found
> information for our own families and teach them how to do it too.
>
> We can offer to help the members of the PEC (and their spouses) with their
> own family history, teaching them how to use New FamilySearch and helping
> them prepare names for temple ordinances.
>
> Most of all, we can fast and pray that our priesthood leaders feel the
> Spirit of Elijah in their own lives and gain testimonies for themselves.
> We can show our love for them and teach them through our personal examples
> and/or efforts.
>
> There are a lot of ways to support our priesthood leaders in our stakes
> and wards. We serve under their stewardship but we can love and support
> them in so many ways so that they see how family history and temple work
> will bless their lives and the lives of the members in the ward/stake.
>
> I believe the worse thing that family history consultants do is wait and
> do nothing. There are ways that we can move the work along without
> imposing guilt, attacking our stewardship leaders, or things of such ilk.
>
> We can catch the vision of the work for ourselves and see that our own
> families are anxiously engaged in this eternal and noble endeavor. No time
> to moan. We need to put our shoulders to the wheel because there is work
> enough to do until the sun goes down. :>)
>
> I am sincerely interested in other ways that our consultants on this list
> have found to increase and nurture the Spirit of Elijah in their own lives
> and in the lives of their families, as well as their wards/stakes.
>
> Mary Scott
> Northville Ward
> Westland Michigan Stake
>
>
>
>
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