Unto all the World: Finding Peace in Temple Work

It can be difficult to imagine something as significant as temple worship being any more meaningful than it already is. But that is the promise to those who search out information on their own ancestors and receive the saving ordinances of the temple on their behalf.

“When you’re already going to the temple, … you are already receiving blessings,” says Julene Davidson, a family history consultant in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA. “So sometimes it’s hard to see how it can be so much better.”

It all starts with Love

“It all starts with love,” Elder Russell M. Nelson says in this video about the service families perform in the temple for their own ancestors.

Kim and Wynette Christensen found peace serving in the temple after their son died in a tragic car accident. “The peace and the healing began immediately,” said Kim. “It’s been a great reminder of our purpose as a family as we have gone to the temple.”

Now doing family history and temple work has greater meaning for the Christensens. “The promises of the temple have so much more meaning when you consider who you’re doing the work for,” Kim says.

“We hope that all the people in the Church will be able to have that sublime experience of doing temple ordinance work for their own people,” says Elder Nelson. 

The Importance of Temple Work

This is a video I made for Tooele High School's Seminary. This video explains the importance of going to the temple, especially in regards of doing temple work for the dead. Please visit www.mormon.org for more information.