Mondays are always special to me due to being the day right after church. I love the lessons taught by teachers that take the time to study and prepare amazing classes. Yesterdays class was an emotional one for me.
The class was about us taking the time on working on our genealogy and doing the temple work for our loved ones that have passed. To catch some of you guys up, I am a member of the LDS church (“Mormon” for short). You can always refer to my previous post to know more on My Beliefs As A Mormon.
I’ve always liked the idea of doing my genealogy, but I was having a hard time finding my family’s information from files on Family Search. My father-in-law is awesome when it comes to genealogy and I asked for his help. We were unable to find anything, which was a big bummer for me. I kept trying every so often, but no luck finding anything.
About 2 months ago, I got a HUGE urge to look for my family on Family Search again. After spending hours searching and not finding anything, I had an impression to look for my family by changing the order of their last names.
And just like that, I began to find a lot of my family and their birth or death dates, their children and so much more.
I called my parents to tell them the news and even though they really didn’t understand everything that I was doing, they were so excited. They started giving me suggestions. It also helped them remember names of family members.
The most exciting part was to find my dads great grandfather. His great grandfather had left my grandfather when he has a baby, so no one could remember his name.
My parents were asking me to continue looking to see if I could find more of our family members.
When I mentioned earlier about doing temple work for loved ones that have passed, we believe in doing baptisms, endowment sessions and sealing for loved ones that have passed and never got to hear of the church or they didn’t do any ordinances while they were here on earth.
No that doesn’t mean that they are automatically part of the church. All we do is the work and they still get to choose if they accept it or not, but at least the work has been done.
And lately my grandfathers (both have passed away) have been really close to me and pushing me to do their work. So yesterday I was so emotional during our relief society class on genealogy. I could feel my grandfathers with me during the whole class.
I’ve had the wonderful experience of my husbands’ grandmother coming to me in a dream and letting me know that she was ready for her work to be done properly.
I thought it was a little strange and I didn’t understand it, but when I told my husband, he was quiet for a bit and then he told me that I should tell his parents.
Being intimidated by my in laws and in fear that they would think I was crazy, I told my husband that I couldn’t. My husband was insisting that it was something that they needed to hear.
So the following week I told my in laws, hahaha.
My brother-in-law – their grandmother – my husband
After we were gathered at the dining room table, I described my husbands grandmother and I began to tell them that I had a dream of my mother-in-laws mom. Then I told them everything she told me.
My father-in-law smiled and my mother-in-law was angrily saying, “See! I asked her many times if she was sure of what she was doing and she kept saying yes! What a stubborn Woman! How come she didn’t come to me?!”
Which my father-in-law followed with, “She didn’t come to you because she knew you were going to yell at her.”
The amazing thing was that they knew what she meant and they knew what to do. Then, my mother-in-law calmed down. They began to plan the arrangements to getting her sealed to her husband instead of her being sealed to the person that had hurt her the most. My mother-in-law thanked me for telling her and I felt relieved that it made sense to them.
By the way…. my husbands grandmother had passed away years before I met my husband. I had never seen her in pictures.
When I described her to my in laws, it was all based on my dream of her. The way she looked and the way she wore her hair in my dream was the way she looked when she was alive. My mother-in-law said, “Yea, that’s her.”
Whether you believe in the afterlife or not, just doing your genealogy and indexing can bring such great joy to those that are actively looking for more. Plus it’s pretty cool to know of those that came before us.
What are some awesome discoveries that you’ve had when you did your genealogy?
Much Love, Peace & Joy
