Lesson for August 2, 2015

Lesson for August 2, 2015 Today our lesson was given by Lana Horrocks gave the lesson on family history. She works for Ancestry.com and is a life history coach. She and her father were genealogy buddies. She would do the research and he would put it into the computer. She got started doing the Generations project at BYU and download stories. In 2011 and she saw a girl on the project named Emily who felt like she had to find her ancestors. The show people found her ancestors in the strangest of circumstances. She is involved in a project called Ancestor echoes. She has some advice for things to do. 1. Seek with diligence. The Lord will help you find a way and you will feel wonderful. Seek two things: the Lord and your ancestors. Lana said it is the same frequency. Revelation. Ancestors are seeking to have their work done. Temple work for our kindred dead is what they are yearning for. They are praying for us, so they have a vested interest in our success in finding them. Lana told about her dear friend Elaine who had some of her ancestors come to her and ask her to do their work, including an aunt who had made her life miserable. We do not need to wait for the Millennium to do it because we can get revelation. 2. Pray with faith. The Lord wants to know your intent and our faith is with action. Continuous revelation comes through dreams, words, and the help of others. If you don’t use your ancestors to help you, you are unprepared. One woman was confined to a wheelchair and her husband was very much into family history. She was contacted by Alexander McRae, her husband’s ancestor, who had been Joseph Smith’s bodyguard and was the only member of his family to be baptized into the Church. His sisters had burned his journals. Lana said to write the answers to your prayers in your journal so you can remember that we did get answers. Write down the inspiration to find our ancestors. Lana keeps a prayer journal and the Lord has given her over 50 pages of personal revelation. She said it does not go through your brain, but through your heart. She types what she gets because she can go faster. She said to ask the Lord what He has for us and he will give us the answers. She had people read scriptures about seeking and the Lord helping us find. She said the scriptures help you find things but lds.org can help you find things faster. She belongs to Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and Daughters of the American Revolution. She was contacted by one of her ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War and he gave his reasons for fighting, including fighting for religious freedom. He gave her two pages of information and asked her to do his work. 3. Sacrifice with love. We can search for records. We can search for stories. We can record and go to the temple. Heidi said she had researched her family history and someone had put in the dates all wrong. She had to fix these things. One of her ancestors had three or four babies who died and the person who had entered things wrong had at least taken pictures of grave markers, so she did get that right. Rhonda read a quote about going back a hundred generations to get what they have to impart to us. All we need to do is practice and we will get better at family history.