Treasures in Heaven: Fifteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints — John Shaqi
Treasures in Heaven: Fifteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Treasures in Heaven: Fifteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Eskildz, Niels P. L., 1836-; Lambert, Mary Alice Cannon, 1828-; Service (Theology)
"On seeing me, she exclaimed: 'I have been wanting to see you, and was
going to write to you. I had a wonderful dream about your wife this
morning.' She then proceeded to relate the dream, which was in line
with my wife's wish, as expressed by Brother Jenkinson, that her Temple
work should be done.
"Two days thereafter the Temple work was done, and it was the most
glorious day of my life. No joy that I had previously felt could
compare with the heavenly happiness that I experienced. Tears came to
my eyes, and I rejoiced in a spirit of thanksgiving to my Heavenly
Father for being permitted to enter His holy house and partake of the
blessings therein bestowed.
"Since then I have felt that my main mission on earth is to have
Temple work done for as many spirits as possible; thereby aiding in
the release of those departed spirits from their prison houses. I have
also taken the opportunity to encourage others to search out their
genealogies and do Temple work for their kindred dead."
That is his story, briefly told. Others can testify to the fidelity
with which he has fulfilled what he conceived to be his mission. He
frequently goes to the Temple himself and receives ordinances in behalf
of his dead kindred, and he is constantly employing others to do
likewise, so that the work for his kindred dead goes on apace. Being
asked how many he had now had the work done for, he replied that he did
not know--he had not taken time to count--but some thousands.
In addition to all this, he has for the past five years been a worker
on the Temple Block in connection with the Bureau of Information,
spending much of his time there, and with good effect if the
volunteered opinion of hundreds who have listened to him are a fair
criterion by which to judge. Though he never filled a foreign mission,
he has enjoyed privileges that seldom come to foreign missionaries. He
has explained "Mormon" history and doctrine and borne his testimony to
thousands who, as strangers thereto, were seeking the information he
had to offer (and many of them willing listeners,) and who could never
afterwards deny having heard the truth.
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