Missionary Temple Experience

I have had a wonderful two weeks with my student. We were able to find a lot of information which hadn’t been entered into new.FamilySearch including nine other children for her great-grandfather complete with the family’s census information from 1850 to 1900. In new.FamilySearch she claimed her mother’s legacy contributions and several sealings that her mother had not completed before her death two years ago appeared on my student’s ordinance list. Using FamilyInsight she was able to add the children to new.FamilySearch including the census documentation, etc., without retyping in information using the synchronization tool.

Friday we went to the Salt Lake Temple as part of Go Forth day with the Training Zone and Mission Presidency. She had never attended a live endowment session and had not been inside the Salt Lake Temple since her parents received their endowments and they were sealed as a family when she was eight years old. She was impressed with the beauty and the peace. Following the endowment session we did five sealings for her family—a couple, two sons, and two daughters. The spirit was extremely strong! Afterward she told us that her mother was there with us. “It was special because my mother is the one who is providing the money through her will so that I can be on my mission. I hope this made her happy to finish the work that she had begun.”