Tip of the Week: Work Together

This week's tip is to work together!

Family history is a big job and we can't do it alone. Working together on family history can be very helpful, you can learn more, and you can share the joy family history with those around you! Including your family in family history work can help families draw closer to one another and teach about their ancestors' lives. Including your friends in family history work can help strengthen friendships and keep each other on the right track. 


So how can you include others in family history? 

1. Ask your parents and grandparents to share stories and help you get facts straight. You never know what cool records, stories, and pictures your relatives might have laying around.
2. Go to the temple with your friends and/or family. The temple brings peace, clarity, and happiness. Doing work in the temple for your ancestors with your friends and/or family is a wonderful opportunity to grow, learn, and strengthen your testimony right along side with the people you love here on earth. 
3. Share on social media. Our world is evolving very quickly and many people use social media every day. This also provides the ability to easily and quickly share many things. The church keeps up to date on the technological changes in our society, which means family history can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. at the click of a button.  

"With the unity I see increasing, the Lord will be able to perform what the world will think is miraculous. The Saints can accomplish any purpose of the Lord when fully united in righteousness."- Elder Henry B. Eyring, "Our Hearts Knit as One," General Conference, October 2008

"Latter-day Saints find blessings and enjoyment by working together on family history and temple ordinances." -"Family History Together," Ensign, April 2000

There are three awesome short stories about working together on family history found on the link referenced above from the April 2000 Ensign.

I know that when we work together on family history we will grow closer to our loved ones and our testimonies will be strengthened. We will learn more than we would on our own and we will begin to unify the church through the blessings of the family history work and the temple. 

Romans 8:28
D&C 101:64