Just Men Made Perfect

Yesterday I was musing about why I am so interested in Family History.  And it came to me why.  D&C 76 gives the answer.  Thinking of my Dad and the others that I've seen in a prayer circle on my behalf.

In D&C 76, it describes the inhabitants of the terrestrial world this way:  "These are they who are honorable men of the earth, wo were blinded by the craftiness of men."  This perfectly describes my father and others of my ancestors.  I believe I have thousands of ancestors that fit this description.  Many of them were born during a time when the Church was not upon the earth, and others, like my father, into areas already seeped in Catholicism.  They lived what they were taught.

Then it describes the inhabitants of the celestial kingdom.  "These are they who are just men made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood."

My Dad and others were in the terrestrial kingdom not because they did not believe in Jesus and God, but because they lacked the wholeness of the Gospel and the ordinances that are so necessary.

Family History work is so these honorable people can become just men and women made perfect through the wholeness of the Gospel and through the necessary ordinances.  As I've said, thousands of my ancestors and blood relatives through those ancestors will inherit the celestial kingdom through Family History work.  I am very blessed to be able to do this work for them.