In What Ways Has The Holy Ghost Testified Of The Divinity Of Jesus Christ To You?

Family History

Romans 5:5 says that God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

He’s the one who begins to change me and eventually I begin to look and sound like Jesus.

That results in my life beginning to show evidence of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, and patience (Gal. 5:22-23). He’s the one who begins to flow through me so that Jesus Christ is reflected in my life instead of my flesh.

The Spirit allows me to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the people that Jesus wants to touch through me. As I learn to receive his Spirit, my gifts are nurtured, and I can become who God meant for me to be. I can express God’s heart to others, freely giving what He’s given me.

Humbly walking with our God means we are learning to be intimate and dependent on His Spirit by turning toward him and dwelling in his presence.

Involvement in temple and family history work provides continuous opportunities to invite the Holy Ghost into your life.

President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has taught that "family history work has the power to do something for the dead. It has an equal power to do something to the living. Family history work ... has a refining, spiritualizing, tempering influence on those who are engaged in it." (Boyd K. Packer, "Your Family History: Getting Started," Ensign, August 2003, 17).

"Brother Widtsoe reaffirmed that 'those who give themselves with all their might and mind to this [family history] work receive help from the other side. Whoever seeks to help those in the other side receives help in return in all the affairs of life.'" (Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple, 252).

The restoration of the sealing authority by Elijah in 1836 was necessary to prepare the world for the Savior’s Second Coming and initiated a greatly increased and worldwide interest in family history research.

Elder Russell M. Nelson has taught that the Spirit of Elijah is “a manifestation of the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the divine nature of the family.” (“A New Harvest Time,” Ensign, May 1998, 34).

This distinctive influence of the Holy Ghost draws people to identify, document, and cherish their ancestors and family members—both past and present.

Linda Lovshin—Stake Family History Consultant

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Below is a picture of Linda Lovshin when she was 18 and one of her now at 78.