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by Jan
Across the globe, interest in genealogy has increased in the past few years, but for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often referred to as Mormons or LDS) this type of research has gone on for generations. As a result, millions of records—including birth, marriage, and death certificates, land documents and census reports—have become digitized and are readily available worldwide. Genealogical research has become a lucrative industry for some, but LDS resources and sites such as Familysearch.com, are free to the public. Family History Centers (Mormon genealogy centers) are located in some Latter-day Saint meetinghouses and genealogical and Church-related information is maintained in permanent storage in the Granite Mountain vault in the Wasatch Range of Utah.
As people begin researching their family lines, they often feel a strong connection to their own roots and find it hard to stop unraveling the mystery. Mormons... Read the rest of this article »
by Seth
Why Mormon Families?
True happiness in this life can be found within the Mormon family unit. It is within the family were the greatest trust, love, and compassion should come from. As a Mormon family learns to love and serve one another, there is a desire to be with that family forever. The fact that God’s great plan of happiness allows families to be together forever is one of the key beliefs taught within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (mistakenly called the “Mormon Church” by some). The Mormon family is the central unit in the LDS Church. This focus on the family is one of the main reasons many have joined the Church. As members are taught to follow the example Jesus Christ set for all of us, they will find real peace and happiness. As members of a family work together to help each other, they will feel that same peace and happiness.
Families in the LDS Church are about as typical as any other family. They... Read the rest of this article »
Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27).
The more a person learns to commune with God and feel His spirit, the more peace comes to his soul, even when the world around him is challenging, confusing, and even dangerous. Other scriptures talk about the kind of peace one can find through a belief in Jesus Christ. Some of the following scriptures are from the LDS Church’s canon–The Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants, a collection of revelations received by modern prophets :
My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment (Doctrine and Covenants 121:7);
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea (Isaiah 48:18)…
For the mountains shall depart,... Read the rest of this article »
Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bring countless blessings to a person’s life. The promises (or covenants) which members of the LDS Church (often called Mormons) make in temples allow families to be bound together in an eternal bond. This means that marriages do not have to end with death; they can go on for eternity. Children can be bound to their parents through the same eternal bonds. This brings indescribable peace when trials afflict individuals in their lives, when people lose loved ones, and when a repentant heart seeks the cleansing power of the atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Below are the feelings of a Mormon woman who had to travel great distances in the past to reach Mormon temples, of the blessings those trips to the temple have brought, and of her joy at soon having a temple nearer to her in Indianapolis.
Peace Be Unto You
by Cathy
Cathy and Roger Gorge
When I was a child I asked my dad what he wanted... Read the rest of this article »
by Terrie
A visit to a Mormon congregation on any given Sunday will show a building filled with very busy women. “Mormon” is a nickname sometimes used for the religion of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Both the opening and closing prayers in the worship service, known as Sacrament Meeting can be given by Mormon women. In addition, Mormons do not use a paid clergy and so, instead of having the bishop (a lay pastor) giving the weekly sermon, any member of the church may be asked to do so. In most meetings there is one or two teenage speakers and two adult speakers. Women and girls are as likely to be asked to speak in these meetings as are men.
After the service, Mormons attend classes. The first set of classes is Sunday School for adults and teens, and Primary for children. Women are frequently seen teaching any of these classes. After Sunday School, men meet for Priesthood meeting and women attend Relief Society, a woman’s auxiliary... Read the rest of this article »
by Terrie
What Are Mormon Garments?
Mormons (a nickname for people who belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) wear religiously significant clothing beneath their street clothes. Some people refer to this as Mormon underwear, but Mormons simply refer to them as garments. Despite disrespectful names that suggest otherwise, they are not magic in any way, nor are they considered so by those who wear them. Instead, Mormon garments serve the same purpose as religious clothing worn by other religious people. They are a private reminder of religious covenants Mormons make with God in Mormon temples. Mormon underwear serves to protect modesty, since they should be covered at all times, and are not to be adjusted in order to keep them hidden. This means that clothing should be adjusted to the garment, and not the other way around. Garments also serve as constant reminders that those who wear them have taken on themselves the name of Jesus... Read the rest of this article »
Personal thoughts on finding peace in the House of the Lord, temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon temples).
Chasing Peace in the World….
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Finding Peace in the Gospel & Mormon Temples
The adversary, Satan, would have us be as he is: running to and fro in the earth, going through the motions but missing the mark.
Ever see yourself as Adda in A Bug’s Life? The up-and-coming queen bee–frenetic, anxious, and breathless–trying to be in control of your destiny and never quite feeling so? Or how about Rabbit in Pooh Party? Let’s rewind the tape on that one for a moment. Here’s Rabbit, preparing for a party, following a predetermined schedule–an air-tight list of things to do which he believes to be the guarantee to a successful party. He seems to be stressing over his lengthy list, tacked up by the bathroom mirror, as he pours over it while brushing his teeth! Poor Rabbit. In the... Read the rest of this article »
Personal thoughts from a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Karen Rose, on insights gained in the temple.
In the holy temple, as I’m taught and retaught about God’s plan of happiness, I’ve pondered pieces of the Mormon endowment over and over. The Mormon temple endowment is an empowering course of instruction that lays out clearly our relationship to God, the creation story, and its symbols and meaning, the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ for our sins, and our way back to Him through promises we make to Him to obey His highest laws, becoming more like Him daily. Sitting in an endowment ceremony, I was reflecting on the patterns in the creation story, also told in Genesis, and in modern scripture, The Pearl of Great Price. It struck me that God is an expert and specialist in making order out of chaos. His pattern of creation is to take matter that is not in a cohesive pattern, but exists, and rework it into... Read the rest of this article »
Personal reflections and thoughts on what the Mormon temple garment means to Karen Rose.
I love wearing the holy garments I received within the Washington D.C. Temple, one of over a hundred temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Mormon garments are reminders of sacred covenants or promises I’ve made there, with corresponding, amazing, promised blessings and gifts for a fulness of life here and eternal life hereafter. We’ve often been asked about these under-garments, which to us are very sacred and personal, but certainly not secret.
Some, errantly, have called them by lesser names, that we discourage but will repeat here for understanding purposes: “Mormon underwear” and “secret Mormon underwear.” Others disparagingly and ignorantly also have used the degrading misnomer, “magic Mormon underwear.” If you have heard those nominalizing, less-than-sanctifying terms about Mormon wear, we invite... Read the rest of this article »
Personal reflections on the blessings of peace which come from visiting temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from Karen Rose.
Latter-day Saint temples provide saving ordinances–rites of passage–with God’s authority to all who enter worthily. They are also unmistakably a refuge from the heat and tumult of the world. I remember a day sitting in front of the baptistry, feeling a world apart form the world, and needing that covert. I opened the scriptures in the LDS Temple (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) to Isaiah 4:6, which reads:
King James Bible
“And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.”
New American Standard Bible
“There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain.”
That day, and on many other occasions,... Read the rest of this article »
