Brother Goddard, thank you so much for beautifully capturing my own feelings of connection to my beloved ancestors. I have so often wanted to thank them for their courage, stalwart examples and faith that have had such a huge influence in my own life.
Similarly, I've also yearned to be able to express my deep gratitude to the missionaries who left their own families in the 1840s and 1850s to travel to Scotland, Wales, Denmark and Canada to introduce my great great grandparents to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to invite them to come to Zion. I'm presently serving a full time senior mission in Prague, in the Czech Republic in small part to "pay it forward" , to give other families the same blessings I have enjoyed because of the faithful service of the missionaries who taught my ancestors.
I'm going to follow your example and actually put my feelings to pen and paper! Thank you!
ColinNovember 27, 2018
Thanks, Dr. Wally! I love all of your articles.
When we’re resurrected, we will indeed be out of time as God is, I presume.
But until then, we seem to be captives of time, even in the spirit world. I think often of what Pres. Smith wrote in his vision of the dead, that they viewed the long absence of their bodies as a bondage. That sounds like they are impatient for the resurrection and subject to time.
And if so, our delays in doing temple for our kindred must be especially painful for them, since st least for now they do feel the slow passage of time. We should get after it. Time’s a-wasting!
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Lawrence BarryNovember 27, 2018
Your article touched me deeply...thank you.
Katherine BoswellNovember 27, 2018
Brother Goddard, thank you so much for beautifully capturing my own feelings of connection to my beloved ancestors. I have so often wanted to thank them for their courage, stalwart examples and faith that have had such a huge influence in my own life. Similarly, I've also yearned to be able to express my deep gratitude to the missionaries who left their own families in the 1840s and 1850s to travel to Scotland, Wales, Denmark and Canada to introduce my great great grandparents to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to invite them to come to Zion. I'm presently serving a full time senior mission in Prague, in the Czech Republic in small part to "pay it forward" , to give other families the same blessings I have enjoyed because of the faithful service of the missionaries who taught my ancestors. I'm going to follow your example and actually put my feelings to pen and paper! Thank you!
ColinNovember 27, 2018
Thanks, Dr. Wally! I love all of your articles. When we’re resurrected, we will indeed be out of time as God is, I presume. But until then, we seem to be captives of time, even in the spirit world. I think often of what Pres. Smith wrote in his vision of the dead, that they viewed the long absence of their bodies as a bondage. That sounds like they are impatient for the resurrection and subject to time. And if so, our delays in doing temple for our kindred must be especially painful for them, since st least for now they do feel the slow passage of time. We should get after it. Time’s a-wasting!
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