Elder Mark A. Bragg on how temple and family history unify families in Christ [10:03-15:05]

dedicate temples. But if we just continue to do things as we did in the past, we'd never be able to have enough names to take to the temple. But in his wisdom, he, he allows for the discovery of artificial intelligence and, and other scientific advances with DNA and other things that, that, that someday we'll, we'll play a big part in all of this. But I, I just, I marvel at the timing. He, he, he inspires his prophets to really accelerate the building of temples worldwide, getting them close to the people. And knowing that we would have to be able to catch up to that keep up with that, and even get ahead of that, he allows for the creation of, of, artificial intelligence and other, other advances that will allow us to, to create this great tree to stitch together this, this disparate information into trees. You know, we can take, we can buy a book that, that has just a dense book of, of family history information in a, in a, a farmland in Germany, literally what we've done. And we can scan it, upload it, and, and there's programs now that can scrape that information and populate a tree that we can then put into the family search tree, which we couldn't even imagine doing five years ago. But we need it now. And so that's what we do. I love that. And I want to go back to what you said, because it was in root, at Roots Tech in 2025, we heard Elder Neil L. Anderson and President Jeffrey are Holland talking about having what you know. And that really stuck with me. And the ordinance is ready. Whenever my boys, I have three young men at my house and a return missionary at BYU, and whenever we go to the temple, it's immediately what names, who is this? And I want to learn more about them, this name of somebody that I'm taking to the temple that came from family search. And it just connects us so much. And you think about who came before. Tell me more about this idea of getting the youth involved. How do we make it more? I mean, I'm trying with my boys. What other ways can we help get the youth more involved? Well, before I answer that, and I'll come back to that, okay? This ad, what you know, is so important. And I've been a beneficiary of this. I had some information. I added it to my family tree on one of my ancestors. I put down the information that this ancestor literally told me, well, his son told me, you know, this is where he was born, this is where he died. And I put that information in. I hadn't found it, but I put it in. And because we have other people that can look at your tree and add to your tree and make some, can help you out, this one individual did the research, found birth records and death records. And I was wrong. So this family tradition that we had always heard, here's where he was born, here's where it was incorrect. And so you add what you know. And then others will be inspired to help you out in your journey. So I love that. Now, with the youth, we talked about ordinances ready. I think that's a really important thing for the youth. I think the ability of a young woman to, as she's walking up the stairs, you know, to the temple, she can go on to ordinances ready, find all of her ancestors, that need the baptism and go in and do those baptisms for her ancestors. So I think there's an immediate connection. You know, back in 2011, Elder Bednar spoke about the blessings of family history, particularly for the rising generation. And he talked about how it would increase their testimony. It would protect them against the challenges of this world. It would help them. And in every aspect of their life spiritually and temporally. So it's important that we get them involved. I think, you know, we, we talk about the weekly coordination meetings in the wards, right, for missionary work and for temple and family history. And so on though in those coordinating meetings, they're supposed to have the youth, the young man and young woman, in both of those to, to help them help their peers get involved in the work of salvation and exaltation on both sides of the veil. So I, I just think that, um, we try to make it interesting. I mean, there are some fun things you can do on family search. And, and there's a balance there, right? I, we want to have people go and enjoy their time on, on family search. And so you can find your connection to famous people, or you can upload your photo and, and it searches all the photos and your family tree to see who you