More Quotes from
Church Leaders
Genealogy
“We ought to encourage
our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make
effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations,
etc.”
-President
Spencer W. Kimball
"We
urge our young people to begin today to write and keep records of all the
important things in their own lives"
President
Spencer W. Kimball
"I promise you that
if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source
of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren,
and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those
who are near and dear to us and as our posterity read of our life's experiences,
they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when
our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted"
President
Spencer W. Kimball
"Every person should keep a journal and
every person can keep a journal. It should be an enlightening one and should
bring great blessings and happiness to the families. If there is anyone
here who isn't doing so, will you repent today and change – change your
life?"
President Spencer W. Kimball
“Those who keep a personal journal are
more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives.”
Spencer W. Kimball
“The Prophet Joseph taught that you and I are to
become saviors on Mount Zion. We are to gather, build temples, seek after
our dead, and perform all the vital ordinances. This work welds eternal
links that bind us to each other and to our fathers. We are exalted
as family units.
“The Prophet Joseph said, ‘It is necessary…that
a…welding together of dispensations…should take place…from the days of
Adam even to the present time.’ (D&C 128:18)”
A. Theodore Tuttle