Temple and Family History

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Questions to consider during the 21 Day Challenge:

What does my covenant path journey look like?

How are my connections with?:

• Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ

• My family

• My ancestors

Here are some blessings Sister Wendy W. Nelson mentioned we can have by making this sacrifice of time to the Lord:

• Greater access to God’s power

• Decrease in stress

• Increased energy

• More and clearer revelation

• Renewed focus

• Courage to make changes

• Increased patience

• More time for what matters most

• Feeling of greater purpose

Sample of Activities for the 21-Day Challenge:

1. Write in your journal

2. Pray for your ancestors to accept the Gospel

3. Log in to FamilySearch, Ancestry, or MyHeritage

4. Help someone else with family history

5. Review maps of where your ancestors lived and in what time period

6. Review ancestor’s names in a record (e.g. consensus, birth, death) or gravestone

7. Take a friend with you to the temple

8. Go on a temple tour

9. Make a temple screen saver or lock screen on your computer or device

10. Read a book or a conference talk about temples or family history

11. Bear your testimony about the temple or family history

12. Give a lesson about temples or family history

13. Walk around the temple grounds with your family

14. Take a picture of your family in front of a temple

15. Hang a picture of a temple in your bedroom or office

16. Find and print a name to take to the temple

17. Go to the temple by yourself or with your spouse

18. Go to the temple with your youth-aged children

19. Sing “I Love To See the Temple” with your family

20. Talk to an ordinance worker about their experiences serving in the temple

21. Help with temple cleaning

22. Add a name to your family tree

23. Add a memory or photo to FamilySearch, Ancestry, or MyHeritage

24. Talk to relatives and record their life stories

25. Review old photo albums by yourself or with your family

26. Participate in an index project, if available

27. Attend a training or watch an archived RootsTech session on family history

28. Have a family home evening or family council on temples or family history

29. Submit DNA from Ancestry, 23andMe, or another DNA provider

30. Link MyHeritage or Ancestry to FamilySearch

31. Encourage each other to participate in the 21-day Challenge