family history

"To you who are worthy and able to attend the temple, I would admonish you to go often. The temple is a place where we can find peace. There we receive a renewed dedication to the gospel and a strengthened resolve to keep the commandments."
—Thomas S. Monson



The last seven days has been a spiritual feast for the Nevada City Ward. We have reached 25% of our ward goal and performed many ordinances for our kindred dead. (see "Counting UP" sidebar on the right)

On the August 27th 10 people from our ward and about the same number from the Penn Valley Ward attended our assigned sealing session. There were so many of us that the Temple split us into two sealing rooms with two sealers. We did many sealings for relatives of members of our ward. Additionally we did many more sealings for others. Those attending felt that spirits were pleased with our efforts.

On September 3rd we attended a baptism session at the temple that Mike Dahle arranged. Those in attendance were Bishop Emery, Ken Farnsworth, Ken & Roxanne Eslick, Jon DeMartini, Larry Gray, Bess Russ, Pat Wadatz, Laura Warren and Ben Warren, Amber, Jeremiah, Garret and Hunter Newman, Tom, Marika, and Anna Conley, Kathy, Brianna and Jared Stephensen.

President William W. Parmley welcomed us and told about an experience that he had the previous week. When he was walking across the parking lot at 5:00 am in the morning to open the Temple he felt a large crowd of spirits following him to the Temple. He realized that these were the spirits that would have ordinances preformed for them that day. Not only did they know what was happening but wanted to attend. I'm sure that Friday morning that the 161 spirits that we performed the baptisms for were among the spirits that were waiting for the Temple to open. All were relatives of ward members and are thankful for our efforts.

The next major event is a ward Temple day scheduled for October 23rd. We have two hours in baptistery reserved. Also we should have 200 names ready for endowments and several hundred names for sealings. Please mark your calendars, prepare your family names and encourage others to participate. It will be a day of peace, a day of gratitude for those in the spirit world and a day to share the joy of service with our children.