Last week I posted about sharing your ancestors' stories. This week's post goes right along with that. You can find and share your ancestors' stories because they recorded them. Your descendants will only be able to find and share your stories if you write them down! You can do this by journaling, scrapbooking, making videos, making time capsules, etc.
My Family Booklet is a great way to make recording your history easier. On Family Search you can fill out an online booklet or order a hard copy of it. You can also help transfer information to other people's booklets. On the site it says, "The My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together booklet is an engaging way to capture and preserve your family story. We'll help you record family information, including adding photos, dates, and precious family stories."
Click on the link and go try it out! My Family Booklet
There's also an awesome list of writing prompts to start writing your own history found here.
We can also keep a journal and write our family histories to turn the hearts of the living toward the living--as well as the hearts of the living toward their ancestors. It is all about linking our family, generation by generation, in eternal bonds. As we do so, we become “saviours … on mount Zion.” -Hugo E. Martinez, "Our Personal Ministries," Ensign, November 2014
They had often borne testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel, which we can now read in their precious journals. -Mervyn B. Arnold, "What Have You Done With My Name?," Ensign, November 2010
I am grateful for a teacher who encouraged his students to keep a journal of the whisperings or promptings of the Spirit in their lives. He directed us to note what we felt and what resulted. Little things became evident. -Sydney S. Reynolds, "A God of Miracles," Ensign, May 2001
I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do. I am sure you will never turn your own children’s hearts more to you than you will by keeping a journal and writing your personal history. They will ultimately love to find out about your successes and your failures and your peculiarities. It will tell them a lot about themselves, too. They will get a great desire to raise a family of their own when they see what a great blessing they were to you. -Hartman Rector Jr., "Turning the Hearts," Ensign, May 1981
I know that keeping records of our own lives will bless us and our descendants, and that our descendants will have the opportunity to learn from us just as we have learned from our ancestors. I know that through recording stories we will grow closer to our families and we will have a better understanding of the work we have been called to do.
Ezra 4:15
Exodus 24:4
Daniel 12:1
2 Nephi 5:29
Alma 37:2
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