September 23, 2012

Truthfulness of the gospel

I feel the need to share something with all of you. For years, my family has been working hard to gather our family history and get everything in order to do the temple work. Today I was able to finally figure out how to move forward with the work. Only to find out that someone else has done the work or is trying to do the work for some of my immediate family members. At first, I was extremely angry and hurt. For I have waited years to be able to do the ordinance work for my grandmothers and name sakes along with the work for others of my ancestors that I have very fond memories of. But as my amazing husband helped me to calm down and see that the Lord will make it available for me to do their work and that the missionary efforts with our living family will not be hinder, I came to realize that the Lord's work is never wrong it is just people to do it or make it wrong. I know that I will be able to do the work for my ancestors when the time is right and the rightful permission as been given. I know that they are waited for all of this to be done it the right time. I will not let this dampen my joy in the fact that I get to go with my husband and do the work for my great- grandma Sallie Jane Phipps and her husband this coming Friday. This will be a new experience and I know that it will take more than one trip to get all the work accomplished but I am so excited to be starting to do the work for the dear people who have help me to become who I am. I also am grateful for a church that is sensitive to not only the needs of those who are deceased but also to those they have left behind. With the Lord's help my family will be welded together for time and all eternity through the joy and love of the gospel, no matter the missteps that we all make in this life. I hope that this little story may help some one else who may have had this experience. Please know that through the Lord the truth will always be revealed and win the day no matter how dark or bleak it may seem. I don't know how or when but I know this problem will be resolved.