It's Uplifting!

I was amazed to find out how easy and uplifting family history is.  It's kind of crazy how much the spirit of Elijah can touch your heart.  After learning how to use some genealogy tools,  I found 81 temple names. (That was very encouraging because it was so much easier than I thought it would be.)  Taking those names --names I had found myself-- to the temple for the first time was an amazing experience.  I was walking alone on the temple grounds, yet I knew 81 of my brothers and sisters on the other side of the veil were walking with me.  It was a remarkable experience.  I know that those on the other side of the veil are anxiously waiting for their work to be done.  The field is white, all ready to harvest.  I know that as we do this work and serve them, they are excited to do what they can to serve us in return.  This is a work that is resting on our shoulders. I know that as I have served by doing family history, I have been blessed greatly. 

"And we ask thee, Holy Father, that thy servants may go forth from this house armed with thy power, and that thy name may be upon them, and thy glory be round about them, and thine angels have charge over them;

 And from this place they may bear exceedingly great and glorious tidings, in truth, unto the ends of the earth, that they may know that this is thy work, and that thou hast put forth thy hand, to fulfill that which thou hast spoken by the mouths of the prophets, concerning the last days."

--Doctrine and Covenants 109: 22-23

-Eliza