Elder Mark A. Bragg on how temple and family history unify families in Christ [30:09-35:17]

to them about this ancestor. Now they're going to go. Yeah. There's not, I don't know. You would, I would love to see, is, you know, as we add what we know, add photos, how great would it be that when you go into the, the baptistry, not only does the name of the individual that you're being baptized for, their photo comes out, right? Maybe a little bit of information about them. I, you know, I think technology is getting to a point where we could probably do something like that. And it'll, it'll just develop even a greater connection with our, with our ancestors, or with the individuals, for whom we are performing those ordinances. Yes. What do you wish more church members knew and understood about temple and family history? I've had this impression since I, it's so blessed to receive this assignment just last August. I, I wish people would understand that, that the Lord is pleased with them, that they're doing I might even get emotional about this, that they're doing great things. And listen, there's always more we can do. So just, you know, just to add what you know, but I know the Lord would say, well done, now good and faithful servant. Keep doing those great things. And, and as you get involved in it and, and feel that spirit, it'll take off. And, and it'll be, it'll be glorious. But I guess, I guess I, I wish them the members would know that, that they're, they're really doing great things. And we wouldn't be where we are without, without these, these great members we've spoken about some of them and, and these temple and family history consultants and, it's great bishops and state presidents and relief society presidents and elders born presidents and youth, without them, we wouldn't be where we're at. So I just, I, my prayer would be that they, they'll just take a moment and say, all right, we're doing okay. We're doing okay. Yes. Yeah. This leads, I think, perfectly to our, our last question of the church news podcast, as always, what do you know now? And we give our guests the last word. So you'll have the, the last word and the opportunity to bear a testimony if you'd like about, um, about this, this whole subject we've been talking about. And so I would love to know, Elder Bragg, what do you know now about temple and family history leading us to the Savior helping us gather Israel and prepare the world for his second coming? Yeah. Um, a couple of things come to mind. One is, and it, it, it came to me, I won't take the time to look it up, but if you look up, uh, Elder Cook's talk from a couple of years ago, roots and branches, he spoke about he or she, Kimbell's wife, Violet, who spoke about hearing for the first time from Joseph Smith about this great work of salvation, exaltation and doing proxy baptisms. And she thought, this is incredible. I want to do this from my mother. And, and, and she wrote a heaver, see, Kimbell, it just, the excitement that she felt, and I, I hope we feel that excitement, because I think sometimes we feel guilt. We feel, oh, I'm not doing enough. I'm, I gotta do this. I gotta do, I gotta get my family history work done, right? And, and, and it, even just saying it, it just, there's a burden. And I, I have loved going back and reading the words of the early saints as they heard about this work. And, and you know, the scriptures, section 124 talks about this was, and section 128, this was this work, this, this effort for our ancestors was, was, was put in place before the foundation of this world. So, it was, from the very beginning, this wasn't something that we had to think of, oh, what do we do for those that didn't hear about? Jesus, no, this was from the very beginning. And, and so, so the early saints, they received it with joy. And like, this is the greatest thing I've ever heard. And I, I, I hope we can be there, because that's where we need to be. It is joyous. I'm also, we, we started off talking this way. I am amazed at, at how the Lord leads us. You know, we, we talked about Roots Tech, right? Roots Tech is, we'll probably have 10 million people participating worldwide. And, and I thought about it, the, the reason why the internet, well, the reason we can do this is because we have the internet, right? And the reason we have the internet is to, to move the work of salvation, exaltation forward. It gets used for a lot of different things. Good and bad. But when you break it down, the Lord allowed for the, the invention of the internet so that we could disseminate the good news, eat more readily, more easily, and more broadly. And so, I have just