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In his six-plus years as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. Nelson has continually emphasized the importance and blessings of temple worship.
“It is significant that the Savior chose to appear to the people at the temple. It is His house. It is filled with His power,” he said in October 2022 general conference. “Let us never lose sight of what the Lord is doing for us now. He is making His temples more accessible. He is accelerating the pace at which we are building temples. He is increasing our ability to help gather Israel. He is also making it easier for each of us to become spiritually refined. I promise that increased time in the temple will bless your life in ways nothing else can.”
The process of finding a family name to take to the house of the Lord has never been easier.
With the click of a button, a tool on the FamilySearch Family Tree app called Ordinances Ready searches a member’s family tree to find an ancestor for whom ordinance work can be performed. The member then selects an ordinance and brings the name to the temple. If a relative is not found, Ordinances Ready can provide a name from a member’s ward or stake.
The simplicity of Ordinances Ready is “striking,” but many people may not have used it before and therefore do not know how simple it is, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in the 2023 Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction.
“Many people have expectations that this is more labor-intensive and time-consuming than it actually is,” he said. “In this season of the dispensation, to have this kind of miraculous tool to accomplish this work is a tremendous blessing.”
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