The church is the most wonderful thing in this world, it brings peace and joy, through its many many forms of teaching! These videos make me want to dance with hope and celebration!
The timing of this is a testimony. I sent in our DNA yesterday and worked on my family history for the first time in years. Sounds like Someone wants me back at Church.
BasedOma same here! I passed out at the hospital yesterday and I felt eager to look for my ancestors after this.... And then I just saw this video today :)
Heavenly Father so wants you back at Church. He loves you with an infinite love and sees you as the glorious being you are capable of becoming (see Joseph B Wirthlin talk from October 2007 one of my most favourite talks ever)
I liked this. I appreciate the reminder. I'm talking with my wife right now about how I need to make an actionable goal to do more family history work. Love Mormon Messages.
It always seemed common sence, to me that doing Temple work and family history combined, was a natural thing to do. But thank you, for the remind. And for the promised blessings!😊 God bless everyone. 🙏
Thank you for your very own continual insight, dedication also guidance to hold up my path to becoming increasingly consciously alert in addition to spiritually connected.
Heh. For me, temple attendance is not difficult. Working on my short family history, ripe for the digging, is what gets me. Granted, some parents' information got lost in fires and has made it very difficult for me to track down. And in other cases verifying accurate information frustrates me. Attending the temple is easy. "Digging" for relatives is hard.
You may experience a lack of interest for learning your fam. History but we can start with basic things we care about. For example: what do you like to eat, and who else loved to eat that in your fam..etc Connect your interests with learning if they felt same way as you. You might be surprised how much you can learn about yourself as you find out about them :)
The hardest part for me and my husband as being the only members in both of our families, is that we have to wait the 110 yrs from the persons birth date to do the work of relatives that we knew and to have to get permission from living relatives who don’t have the same beliefs. Getting permission is the hardest part and I have parts of families done and not allowed to do the rest of those people in the same family. Would be nice to seal them all together. And when we are gone, who is going to carry on the work?
Doesn't everyone combined family history with the temple? Isn't that *the point*? Maybe that was just the way my parents raised me.... The animation is cool 👌🏻
Sophia Neilsson Some people turn in names that they can't do themselves, and youth can do these. They are called temple names, while the names you find yourself are family names. I love doing family names because it gives me a more personal connection to the people I'm doing the ordinances for.
Miranda Wilkey I guess I'm used to not living near a temple so we usually take hundreds to do and cram into the annual temple week cos we can't afford to go more regularly than that. People who live near a temple don't know how lucky they are Edit: sorry to clarify, I've only ever done family names at the temple, apart from when I visited America and did temple names
What if you don't feel a desire to research your family history and connect with them? I struggle with this. My husband is the opposite, Chris loves geneology and finds all the information for me, but it holds no interest in my own life. I'm still an investigator within the LDS church and I kind of feel out of place for this lack of desire to connect with my past.
You are not alone ;). I'm a lifelong member and I struggle a lot to feel motivated to do family history. I can say though, that by reading the bible and the book of mormon daily I've come closer to my family, living and past. It's helped me see how much those in the past are still supporting us and giving us wisdom from their stories. Most good things, like sunrises, take time. Keep reading and praying, and see how you feel. If nothing else, You can always keep a journal to pass to your own descendants and relatives.
That's a wonderful question! I've felt that same way for a long time. Most of my Mormon friends as a young convert in the Church seemed to have that great love and a profound connection with stories about their ancestors, they had wonderful pioneer stories, and they pushed them forward to be strong and faithful. But my parents weren't members. I felt disconnected from my ancestry, and being in the Church made me seem to pull farther away from my roots than to connect me to them. And I can't really explain what exactly changed for me, but it came by means of studying the doctrine and scripture associated with family history work and vicarious ordinances in the temple. I love quotes, so if you're interested, here are a couple I know and love that deal with the topic: President Uchtdorf said, "Families are not just meant to make things run more smoothly here on earth and to be cast off when we get to heaven. Rather, they are the order of heaven. They are an echo of a celestial pattern and an emulation of God’s eternal family." And one of my favorite scriptures is in D&C 52:14 "I will give unto you a pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived" We learn that families aren't a coincidental, convenient part of God's plan, rather they're a symbol of an infinitely large and wonderful eternal structure that has always been and will always be in place. We believe that in some future day all children of God will belong to one unified family, sealed and promised together by temple ordinances. And only inside of that one united glorious family of God can we receive all of the blessings He hopes to give us. God loves families and He needs them to work in their boring and imperfect way to bring about his glorious and perfect purposes. God asks us to call Him "Father" and I think there's a reason for that. Personally, as I slowly came to understand what family means to the Father (it means everything to Him) I came to understand what my family means to me. And that might take you a good long while to figure out like it did for me, and that's okay. But if you keep working at it and studying the doctrine you'll get there. One last thought on uncertainty to end: D&C 78:17-19 17 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye are little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you; 18 And ye cannot bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along. The kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the riches of eternity are yours. 19 And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more. You'll get there my friend! Be faithful to the light and testimony that God has already given you, and the rest will fall into place exactly how it should.
I’m a convert as well and there are times that doing genealogy is really important and other times it’s just really a struggle. I am the only member in my family and some of my family love to do research. So I think the spirit is helping me by having them get some things done, (hope that makes sense). We don’t have to do everything at once there’s a time and place for everything. Let the spirit guide you.
Hey, first I'd like to encourage you to continue learning about our church and second, the desire will come in time to learn more about your ancestors. I didn't feel a connection at all when doing my family history in the church until I went to the temple and did my first baptism for the dead, for one of my ancestors and a friend's. I gained such a strong testimony that day of the power of baptisms for the dead and how WE can help our ancestors even though they're gone from this world. I pray that if you keep investigating and eventually join the church that you'll also have a similar experience. God bless.
Thank you.. I loved the quotes and will pray on it to gain a stronger testimony. My husband loves genealogy and for him it's a living, breathing desire of his heart; to hear the echos of the past and connect with his relatives. I guess, for me I look to the future, and hope for our own children... those already in heaven and those to come.... :)
Does anyone know what software was used to create the animations for this video? I'm a professional videographer who often creates "Mormon Messages" with my stake and ward for activities, and I would love to try some animation.
Well scientifically, it's dichotomous Earth that's saturated with nitroglycerin that makes it stable. But I guess you could say that it will be able to hold a lot more nitroglycerin for an "explosive" spiritual effect.
Hey Adam, great question. No, members don't pay to go to the temple. The characters in the video are printing off cards with ancestors' names. Latter-day Saints study family history to discover names of people who have died without being baptized. They are then baptized on behalf of those ancestors in the temple. This might sound unusual to someone hearing about it for the first time, but members of the Church do this out of love for God and their family. To learn more about temples, see the link below! www.mormon.org/site/temples
It's not only that "their work" is done: as this video states, combine temple work and family history work. Family History can be a great deal more than finding a name: it is turning your heart to that ancestor by learning enough about him/her to find what is loveable about them (which may be in the records or learning about the circumstances around them that they overcame or finding a photograph or story about them)-- perhaps feeling how they might be watching and prompting you to do this, along with taking their name to the temple for their priesthood blessings there. And it is sharing what you have learned with others in your family. All that binds you closer to them and makes the temple's sealing powers have greater effect in your life--and just imagine what it does in the eternal progression of all your family!
Yes, like someone else said - look for your distant cousins. If you think it's all been done on your direct lines, look at one of your great or great-great grandparents. Are are all of their siblings' work done? What about the children and children's children of those siblings? My gr-grandpa did all the work he could while he was alive, but now I am able to do his his first and second cousins' work! It's so thrilling to know I can connect with my family that way when at one time I thought it was all done too! :)
In a sense, we are all adopted...adopted into the covenant family of God. You can follow your adopted lines, AND biological if you are able, and if you wish
If you are adopted and sealed to your family you would be a part of their family, ancestors and those yet to be born. If you know your birth family you could still research that family line as well and do their temple work for them. No matter what...you belong💖
@danowen9142 what? I haven't tried dressing up to look like a baker and make masonic hand signals and watched a video where Satan breaks the 4th wall? Nooooo, obviously I have never done that nor any family history work whatsoever all those years I was a mormon.
nothing gives more spiritual power than preaching the gospel and connect the temple with our ancestors,
The church is the most wonderful thing in this world, it brings peace and joy, through its many many forms of teaching! These videos make me want to dance with hope and celebration!
The timing of this is a testimony. I sent in our DNA yesterday and worked on my family history for the first time in years. Sounds like Someone wants me back at Church.
BasedOma - yep, your family are waiting for you to do their work, so they can progress. Keep up the great work...
BasedOma same here! I passed out at the hospital yesterday and
I felt eager to look for my ancestors after this.... And then I just saw this video today :)
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+calvin eulalio I 8months
BasedOma !,..
Wonderful video! Through family history work, we can all be connected to our loving God, and each other forever!
That’s actually a great visualisation of faith, and how it feels
I loved visiting the tmple every week when I went to USU
Doing family names makes going to the temple so special! I always feel the Spirit strongly when I do names I've found myself.
I felt that powerful peace when I was on the Temple! Unforgettable.
Heavenly Father so wants you back at Church. He loves you with an infinite love and sees you as the glorious being you are capable of becoming (see Joseph B Wirthlin talk from October 2007 one of my most favourite talks ever)
I am so thankful that there are such talented people working on videos like these to teach of the truth of the gospel.
We need more videos like these. They make me happy. I Can feel the Spirit when they narrate.
The priesthood power is rising from heaven
What priesthood and who's power?
I liked this. I appreciate the reminder. I'm talking with my wife right now about how I need to make an actionable goal to do more family history work. Love Mormon Messages.
I love the lord and Savior Jesus Christ of the time to go the temple
You are following a false christ
These are great videos for children and adults I hope you make more of them LDS forever
I love the church videos ❤
It always seemed common sence, to me that doing Temple work and family history combined, was a natural thing to do.
But thank you, for the remind. And for the promised blessings!😊
God bless everyone. 🙏
Praise the Lord Jesus christ
Thank you for your very own continual insight, dedication also guidance to hold up my path to becoming increasingly consciously alert in addition to spiritually connected.
I love It
Thank you so much
Im brad. I love this video it's cute ❤
How wonderful! Thank you for making this!
Thats nice. Lovin' the animations!
That is a beautiful video!
This great lesson that i needed today.. Thank you for love to share this
I like ur video about gods love im a christian 👍😀
James chow, sounds like you need to find out more about the LDS church (church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints). We would LOVE to hear from you!
Loved the video and the message♥️♥️♥️
It's nice, wonderful
Need more videos like these! I love them so much 😂💗
I love this video
Power to bring your family together and heal what needs to be healed.
Holy Spirit says, give first place to Jesus in every thing it means prayer, holy Bible meditation everyday.
Love the bird.
So true!
Can't say as I'm all that interested in my ancestors but it's a clever video. Well done.
Great video
then you can learn that being sealed is better
Love it
Wow❤
Wonderful message bro 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏
I good 👍
nice video, keep lighten the the world, and have a nice day!
this almost made me tear up.
Angelic Panda 316 Aww. I agree, the video was lovely. Have a nice day as well!
Heh. For me, temple attendance is not difficult. Working on my short family history, ripe for the digging, is what gets me. Granted, some parents' information got lost in fires and has made it very difficult for me to track down. And in other cases verifying accurate information frustrates me.
Attending the temple is easy. "Digging" for relatives is hard.
Nice Video!
Amazing!
It is great
why do people dislike this kind of video??
A Minnie
Perhaps the video is misleading?
A Minnie .Thank you for putting these together it really helps the world to see things differently. Awesome
They are currently in a telestial state of mind
I love this video so much it's is telling the truth about family history wrok holy Spirit
I liked this video. The animation is funny and the message so important... Waiting for this in portuguese language. I would like to share at my class
Super cool
This was talked about in general conference
You may experience a lack of interest for learning your fam. History but we can start with basic things we care about. For example: what do you like to eat, and who else loved to eat that in your fam..etc Connect your interests with learning if they felt same way as you. You might be surprised how much you can learn about yourself as you find out about them :)
The hardest part for me and my husband as being the only members in both of our families, is that we have to wait the 110 yrs from the persons birth date to do the work of relatives that we knew and to have to get permission from living relatives who don’t have the same beliefs. Getting permission is the hardest part and I have parts of families done and not allowed to do the rest of those people in the same family. Would be nice to seal them all together. And when we are gone, who is going to carry on the work?
Things will work out, the Lord will find a way. There will be alot of work being done during the Millennium.
Good video
yeah
Wow that’s cool
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Good video🙂
Normal Members: Dynamite
Prophets and Apostles: Hydrogen Bombs
I wish I knew how to do family history work
Awesome
Yes amen 😍🤗💖💞✨😍✨💞💖😭😍💖✨💞🤣🙏🏻
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Doesn't everyone combined family history with the temple? Isn't that *the point*? Maybe that was just the way my parents raised me....
The animation is cool 👌🏻
Sophia Neilsson Some people turn in names that they can't do themselves, and youth can do these. They are called temple names, while the names you find yourself are family names. I love doing family names because it gives me a more personal connection to the people I'm doing the ordinances for.
So sweet
Miranda Wilkey I guess I'm used to not living near a temple so we usually take hundreds to do and cram into the annual temple week cos we can't afford to go more regularly than that. People who live near a temple don't know how lucky they are
Edit: sorry to clarify, I've only ever done family names at the temple, apart from when I visited America and did temple names
Sophia Neilsson yes. Your parents are awesome! ;)
+Miranda Wilkey 8months
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Ive been trying to find this
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Love it❤️
Ponganlo en español por favor🙏
Elder Renlund just gave a talk on this haha
good vidio
What if you don't feel a desire to research your family history and connect with them? I struggle with this. My husband is the opposite, Chris loves geneology and finds all the information for me, but it holds no interest in my own life. I'm still an investigator within the LDS church and I kind of feel out of place for this lack of desire to connect with my past.
You are not alone ;). I'm a lifelong member and I struggle a lot to feel motivated to do family history. I can say though, that by reading the bible and the book of mormon daily I've come closer to my family, living and past. It's helped me see how much those in the past are still supporting us and giving us wisdom from their stories. Most good things, like sunrises, take time. Keep reading and praying, and see how you feel.
If nothing else, You can always keep a journal to pass to your own descendants and relatives.
That's a wonderful question! I've felt that same way for a long time. Most of my Mormon friends as a young convert in the Church seemed to have that great love and a profound connection with stories about their ancestors, they had wonderful pioneer stories, and they pushed them forward to be strong and faithful. But my parents weren't members. I felt disconnected from my ancestry, and being in the Church made me seem to pull farther away from my roots than to connect me to them. And I can't really explain what exactly changed for me, but it came by means of studying the doctrine and scripture associated with family history work and vicarious ordinances in the temple.
I love quotes, so if you're interested, here are a couple I know and love that deal with the topic:
President Uchtdorf said, "Families are not just meant to make things run more smoothly here on earth and to be cast off when we get to heaven. Rather, they are the order of heaven. They are an echo of a celestial pattern and an emulation of God’s eternal family."
And one of my favorite scriptures is in D&C 52:14 "I will give unto you a pattern in all things, that ye may not be deceived"
We learn that families aren't a coincidental, convenient part of God's plan, rather they're a symbol of an infinitely large and wonderful eternal structure that has always been and will always be in place. We believe that in some future day all children of God will belong to one unified family, sealed and promised together by temple ordinances. And only inside of that one united glorious family of God can we receive all of the blessings He hopes to give us. God loves families and He needs them to work in their boring and imperfect way to bring about his glorious and perfect purposes. God asks us to call Him "Father" and I think there's a reason for that.
Personally, as I slowly came to understand what family means to the Father (it means everything to Him) I came to understand what my family means to me. And that might take you a good long while to figure out like it did for me, and that's okay. But if you keep working at it and studying the doctrine you'll get there.
One last thought on uncertainty to end: D&C 78:17-19
17 Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye are little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you;
18 And ye cannot bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along. The kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the riches of eternity are yours.
19 And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more.
You'll get there my friend! Be faithful to the light and testimony that God has already given you, and the rest will fall into place exactly how it should.
I’m a convert as well and there are times that doing genealogy is really important and other times it’s just really a struggle. I am the only member in my family and some of my family love to do research. So I think the spirit is helping me by having them get some things done, (hope that makes sense). We don’t have to do everything at once there’s a time and place for everything. Let the spirit guide you.
Hey, first I'd like to encourage you to continue learning about our church and second, the desire will come in time to learn more about your ancestors. I didn't feel a connection at all when doing my family history in the church until I went to the temple and did my first baptism for the dead, for one of my ancestors and a friend's. I gained such a strong testimony that day of the power of baptisms for the dead and how WE can help our ancestors even though they're gone from this world. I pray that if you keep investigating and eventually join the church that you'll also have a similar experience. God bless.
Thank you.. I loved the quotes and will pray on it to gain a stronger testimony. My husband loves genealogy and for him it's a living, breathing desire of his heart; to hear the echos of the past and connect with his relatives. I guess, for me I look to the future, and hope for our own children... those already in heaven and those to come.... :)
Today i was like whats that video where the explosion goes BOOOOM in his face an she said look up spiritual dynamite
If you're still in Utah
Does anyone know what software was used to create the animations for this video? I'm a professional videographer who often creates "Mormon Messages" with my stake and ward for activities, and I would love to try some animation.
It looks like a combination of After Effects and Character Animator. Both from Adobe. Characters and backgrounds would have been drawn in Illustrator
Well scientifically, it's dichotomous Earth that's saturated with nitroglycerin that makes it stable. But I guess you could say that it will be able to hold a lot more nitroglycerin for an "explosive" spiritual effect.
why do people dislike this vid???????
This is where i want the messages not on hell based things for fun on videos like this
This makes me wierdly laugh and I have had spirituell experiences
What was that thing that the characters print off. Do members pay to go to the temple?
Hey Adam, great question. No, members don't pay to go to the temple. The characters in the video are printing off cards with ancestors' names. Latter-day Saints study family history to discover names of people who have died without being baptized. They are then baptized on behalf of those ancestors in the temple. This might sound unusual to someone hearing about it for the first time, but members of the Church do this out of love for God and their family. To learn more about temples, see the link below! www.mormon.org/site/temples
1:07 look at them 1:56 now look at them can you spot the difference
The have teeth? Are in color?
The people in 1:07 are closed mouth but in 1:56 , they are open-mouth
My ancestors' work is already done? am I supposed to do it again? I'm confused
jaredloveless You then focus on the collateral lines. The work is never done.
It's not only that "their work" is done: as this video states, combine temple work and family history work. Family History can be a great deal more than finding a name: it is turning your heart to that ancestor by learning enough about him/her to find what is loveable about them (which may be in the records or learning about the circumstances around them that they overcame or finding a photograph or story about them)-- perhaps feeling how they might be watching and prompting you to do this, along with taking their name to the temple for their priesthood blessings there. And it is sharing what you have learned with others in your family. All that binds you closer to them and makes the temple's sealing powers have greater effect in your life--and just imagine what it does in the eternal progression of all your family!
Yes, like someone else said - look for your distant cousins. If you think it's all been done on your direct lines, look at one of your great or great-great grandparents. Are are all of their siblings' work done? What about the children and children's children of those siblings? My gr-grandpa did all the work he could while he was alive, but now I am able to do his his first and second cousins' work! It's so thrilling to know I can connect with my family that way when at one time I thought it was all done too! :)
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I don't even know what this video is talking about
James Chow
😂😂😂 Thanks for your honesty this made me laugh!!! Maybe visit mormon.org or lds.org or contact some missionaries.
😂 It didn’t relate with the whole first of the video at all
Neither does the video.
If it sounds too good to be true...
Me either. Im adopted..im always left out lol
In a sense, we are all adopted...adopted into the covenant family of God. You can follow your adopted lines, AND biological if you are able, and if you wish
asome animation
Hi
lol so funny
first
What if you are adopted? I did a DNA via Ancestry site .. Im Irish. That doesnt help me lol
Lol!
If you are adopted and sealed to your family you would be a part of their family, ancestors and those yet to be born. If you know your birth family you could still research that family line as well and do their temple work for them. No matter what...you belong💖
Não tem a versão em português?
:):):)
nice video
Lol wut? I thought this was supposed to be about spiritual dynamite but then it turned into a "do fam history and temple work" lol.
The two things combined are more powerful and useful than alone. Just like nitro-glycerin and the clay were.
bro if it said spirutal dynamite and its by mormon channel then its obovously not what u think it si
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You, have obvioulsy not tried it yet...
@danowen9142 what? I haven't tried dressing up to look like a baker and make masonic hand signals and watched a video where Satan breaks the 4th wall? Nooooo, obviously I have never done that nor any family history work whatsoever all those years I was a mormon.
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