2023
馬可的新召喚
2023年2月


馬可的新召喚

「家譜顧問要什麼?」馬可問。

Top panel: Marco being interviewed by the Bishop. Marco is 11 Center Circle: Aunt, Tía Mirna, she is in her 50’s. 2 panel: Marco’s mom helping him do family history work on the computer. 3 panel: Marco walking into the Lima Peru temple with his mom, dad, and older sister. 4 panel: Marco’s sister and dad doing baptism’s for the dead in the peru temple font. 5 panel: a pedigree chart just showing connections between people with his Aunt highlighted in the background.

馬可和父母坐在主教的辦公室裡,他剛升上男青年,現在主教想要和他談談。他覺得很緊張。

「馬可,我們要給你一項召喚,」迪亞茲主教說,「你願意擔任家譜顧問嗎?」

馬可揚起眉頭,「家譜顧問要什麼?」他問。

「非常好的問題,」主教說,「家譜顧問要做好榜樣,去做家譜和聖殿事工,還要幫助其他人也去做自己的家譜。」

「好。」馬可點點頭。他還是覺得有點緊張,可是也有點興奮。「我還沒去過聖殿,但是我做過一些索引編製。」

「沒問題,」主教說,「桑奇斯姊妹也有家譜的召喚,她會幫助你學更多的事情。」

幾個星期後,馬可與桑奇斯姊妹做視訊通話;她人真的很好。她幫馬可在FamilySearch.org建立帳號,然後教他怎樣找到自己的家譜樹。

馬可很喜歡認識自己的家人。他喜歡在家譜樹上看到祖父母和曾祖父母。桑奇斯姊妹教他如何放上家族成員的相片,他也學到怎樣把尚未加到FamilySearch的人加上去。

馬可加到FamilySearch的其中一個人是蜜娜阿姨;她去年因為癌症過世,馬可很想念她。他想念她愉快的笑容。蜜娜阿姨總是讓他感到愛。

Top panel: Marco being interviewed by the Bishop. Marco is 11 Center Circle: Aunt, Tía Mirna, she is in her 50’s. 2 panel: Marco’s mom helping him do family history work on the computer. 3 panel: Marco walking into the Lima Peru temple with his mom, dad, and older sister. 4 panel: Marco’s sister and dad doing baptism’s for the dead in the peru temple font. 5 panel: a pedigree chart just showing connections between people with his Aunt highlighted in the background.

馬可在媽媽的幫助下,輸入了蜜娜阿姨的出生和過世日期,還加入了她的相片,甚至把一些關於她的回憶輸入網站。

蜜娜阿姨生前沒有受洗,但是,馬可的姊姊莉澤雅可以在聖殿代替她受洗。所以,馬可和他的家人計劃了要去聖殿的日期。馬可在FamilySearch找出其他在多年前過世的家人,他也可以為他們受洗。

馬可現在對家譜有更深的認識之後,很高興能幫助其他人。他在一個教會活動中分享對家譜的見證,還邀請支會的其他青少年和他的家人一起去聖殿。

馬可第一次去聖殿的日子終於來臨,他非常興奮!和家人及其他青少年在一起是多麼特別啊。不過,最讓馬可興奮的是,莉澤雅可以代替蜜娜阿姨受洗。

Top panel: Marco being interviewed by the Bishop. Marco is 11 Center Circle: Aunt, Tía Mirna, she is in her 50’s. 2 panel: Marco’s mom helping him do family history work on the computer. 3 panel: Marco walking into the Lima Peru temple with his mom, dad, and older sister. 4 panel: Marco’s sister and dad doing baptism’s for the dead in the peru temple font. 5 panel: a pedigree chart just showing connections between people with his Aunt highlighted in the background.

他們換上白衣服後,馬可看著爸爸和莉澤雅走進洗禮池。他看到姊姊代替蜜娜阿姨,由爸爸為她施洗,心裡感到很溫暖。媽媽也抹去喜悅的淚水。

Top panel: Marco being interviewed by the Bishop. Marco is 11 Center Circle: Aunt, Tía Mirna, she is in her 50’s. 2 panel: Marco’s mom helping him do family history work on the computer. 3 panel: Marco walking into the Lima Peru temple with his mom, dad, and older sister. 4 panel: Marco’s sister and dad doing baptism’s for the dead in the peru temple font. 5 panel: a pedigree chart just showing connections between people with his Aunt highlighted in the background.

然後輪到馬可了。他踏進水中,代替其他家人接受洗禮。

馬可微笑著,很高興自己能藉著做家譜來嘗試新的事物。家譜的召喚果然很棒!●

Friend Magazine, 2023-02 Feb

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