Spencer
W. Kimball
No Boundaries between Missionary Work and Temple and Genealogical Work
"Missionary
work is not limited to proclaiming the gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue,
and people now living on the earth. Missionary work is also continuing beyond
the veil among the millions and even billions of the children of our Heavenly
Father who have died either without hearing the gospel or without accepting it
while they lived on the earth. Our great part in this aspect of missionary work
is to perform on their earth the ordinances required for those who accept the
gospel over there. The spirit world is full of spirits
who are anxiously awaiting the performance of these earthly ordinances for
them. I hope to see us dissolve the artificial boundary line we so often place
between missionary work and temple and genealogical work, because it is the
same great redemptive work!"
(Ensign, " The
Things of Eternity-Stand We in Jeopardy?" January, 1977)
"Each
of us is important to those who are near and dear to us-and
as our posterity read of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when
our families are together in the eternities, we will already be
acquainted."
(Ensign, "President
Kimball Speaks Out on Personal Journals, December 1980, p. 61)