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Brothers and sisters, Wendy and I are delighted to be with you today. We love families. We love temple and family history work, and we love you. The family truly can be a place for everything from safety and refuge to fun and happiness. And that shouldn't surprise us because of what we believe about the sanctity of the family. As Church members, our interest in family history work has been motivated by instruction from the Lord that our ancestors cannot be made perfect without us, and we cannot be made perfect without them. That means we are to be linked together by the sacred sealing ordinances of the temple. We are to be strong links in the chain from our ancestors to our posterity. It's wonderful to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers by telling important family history stories in ways that are accessible and memorable. However, if we leave it at that level, we haven't really done enough. If we know who our ancestors are and know marvelous things about them, but we leave them stranded on the other side without their ordinances, such diversion will not be of any help to our ancestors who remain confined in their spirit prison. That means sacrificing time we normally spend on other activities. We need to be spending more time in the temple and in doing family history research, which includes indexing. It is my testimony that however fabulous your life is right now, or however discouraging and heartbreaking it may be, your involvement in family history and temple work will make it better. It is my testimony that when we show the Lord we are serious about helping our ancestors, the heavens will open and we will receive all that we need. I would like to extend a challenge to each one of us. I invite you prayerfully to consider what kind of sacrifice, and preferably a sacrifice of time, you can make to do more family history and temple work this year. Brothers and sisters, together we are engaged in the work of Almighty God. He lives. Jesus is the Christ. This is His Church. We are His covenant children. He can count on us.

A Sacrifice of Time

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President Russell M. Nelson and his wife Wendy challenge church members to make the sacrifice of time that will bring great blessings.
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