May you be

 Blessed with the refiner's fire and  fuller's soap

in 2021

This link will take you to our Zoom last night.  It was a review of a lesson we taught earlier last year, showing your Consultants with a few tips under their belt they would be able to listen with the inspired new ability to receive personal revelation.  

It is our hope that you will go forward and teach with exuberance, those of your ward, including your friends and family.  Calling All Detectives was designed with the Consultant's self-esteem in mind.  The word "Consultant" seems to denote, in our society, that "I have so much knowledge and ability that I can advise others in this field."   That can be so overwhelming to someone who may be just learning how to document their family history.  You do NOT have to be a card-carrying, certificate bearing genealogist to become a Temple and Family History Consultant.  

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Ppw0l-OMryCHwH4nG?e=1njj7J

      All you need to know is that God has blessed you to have the power of discernment and the ability to find opportunities for success, to break through virtual brick walls and meander further up thru the sunshine of God's love and the leafy treetops of your family tree.

      Our tools will help you do just that.  Last night was our last Zoom for 2020.  We hope it all goes better next year for you.  We hope that your dreams and aspirations for your family history will start fresh in January 2021.  But most of all we hope you are safe and healthy.  For those of you who were too ill or busy with the Holiday and Family life to join in, we did record it.  

        This has been a rough year.  This has been a year like most of us have never experienced before and it might scare you for your future.   People have lost family...jobs...homes...dreams...and other things that make their lives comfortable.  

     Remember, a new beginning starts as a mustard seed.  If you have but one ounce of faith you can move mountains!  May your experiences be for your good, strengthening you like a 'refiner's fire'.

24 Behold, the great ^aday of the Lord is at hand; and who can ^babide the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appeareth? For he is like a ^crefiner’s ^dfire, and like fuller’s soap; and he shall sit as a ^erefiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of ^fLevi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an ^goffering in righteousness. Let us, therefore, as a church and a people, and as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness; and let us present in his holy temple, when it is finished, a book containing the ^hrecords of our dead, which shall be worthy of all acceptation.

As you start to plan for 2021, think about the mustard seed.  It is one thought, one particle of God's love for you.  Let it take hold and grow one tiny root at a time.  Before long, you will have a plan for your life, your family and hopefully your family history because I hope.......you are writing down all that you endured this year and how you emerged victoriously..  After you and I are gone, others will be left behind to figure things out.  They will need a guide.  Your journal could be the uplifting and edification which they seek.  

Malachi 3:2 

2 But who may ^aabide the ^bday of his ^ccoming? and who shall ^dstand when he appeareth? for he is like a ^erefiner’s ^ffire, and like fullers’ ^gsoap:

Just remember that we love you.  We don't know God's plan for us.  He chooses every little "roll out" as we can take it.  We have to be strong so he will give us a little more to work with.  If he dumps out more than we think we can take, then we need to go back and realize that 

God never gives us more than we can handle and 

..."Through these refining fires we will become stronger...."

…8And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it. 9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’ ”

• Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: “Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more (see Proverbs 3:11–12). He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everlasting benefit. To get you from where you are to where He wants you to be requires a lot of stretching, and that generally entails discomfort and pain” (in Conference Report, Sept.–Oct. 1995, 18; or Ensign, Nov. 1995, 16–17).

• Elder Neal A. Maxwell, then of the Presidency of the Seventy: “Afflictions can soften us and sweeten us, and can be a chastening influence. (Alma 62:41.) We often think of chastening as something being done to punish us, such as by a mortal tutor who is angry and peevish with us. Divine chastening, however, is a form of learning as it is administered at the hands of a loving Father. (Helaman 12:3.)” (All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience [1979], 39).

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