A Temple Miracle

Before we came on this mission Glen knew very little about finding names to take to the temple and I knew nothing. We also didn't realize how much doing temple work would help strengthen the testimonies of new members and regular members. But the Lord knew and so he told me to have them fill out family group sheets and take them to the family history center.This worked very well and the members were able to do the temple work for their families and actually get sealed to their parents and grandparents! The spirit was very strong at those sealings.  That was great, that was amazing!  But it wasn't the end.

Glen set a goal of taking the new adult converts in our Branch to do baptisms for the dead. In our Spanish Branch just getting everyone lined up and interviewed for the recommends is an immense project. But Glen also wanted them to do their own family names. Since the Spanish here don't keep records, or know the names or birth dates of their ancestors, that was actually impossible for us but not for the Lord. Glen studied it out, called the Family History helpers, and was led by the Lord. He came up with a couple of birth certificates and worked everyone's memories and he found names for the converts to do.

One sister had her grown son (also a new convert) get baptized for her deceased husband, father, and brother. Another couple did their parents and grandparents.  Glen also found names for the Branch president and he was able to baptize his teen-aged daughter for his grandmother and then do his own grandfather. Some came just to do temple names and have the experience.

The miracle is that we still don't know how it got done.  But but it  got done. For instance, when President Estrada was going to baptize his daughter for his grandmother, he didn't have any idea how to do it. And he speaks no English so the instructors weren't any help.  So Glen leaned down over the rail to help him read it without his glasses on and realized that his eyesight wasn't good enough to see it and read it to him. After the initial surprise he looked at the President and then back at the card and discovered that now he could see and read it perfectly!

The members had such sweet testimonies today that they bore in church.  They said walking through the doors to the temple was like walking into heaven.  They cried as they spoke about doing the work for family members.  What a beautiful experience for all of us!

Elder Pack worked long and hard to get them their own family names to be baptized for. He even found family names for the President of the Branch. What a night!

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