Help From Beyond the Veil

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Help From Beyond the Veil

• Promptings 101

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Elder Busche

• At a Christmas social, I was sitting next to a
  woman from a recently opened country in Eastern
  Europe who was in the West for the first timeShe
  was a convert of a little over a year.
• She told me about the poor circumstances of her
  old branch and about how difficult it was for
  the members to get to their Sunday meetings and
  the many sacrifices that they joyfully made.
• She said the most inspiring times for the members
  in her branch was the testimony meeting that was
  held on the Sunday of fasting. They would not
  part until everyone had given a testimony because
  they were all anxious to share the many miracles
  happening around them.
• Then she said, Once in a awhile, we would have
  holy angels visit and comfort and strengthen us.
  
• She added with a smile, Can you imagine I have
  found people in Salt Lake City who have never
  seen an angel. She laughed as if that were the
  strangest thing she had ever heard. (Yearning
  for the Living God, p. 234

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Amaleki

• Behold, I, Amaleki, was born in the days of
  Mosiah and I have lived to see his death and
  Benjamin, his son, reigneth in his stead.
• And it came to pass that I began to be old and,
  having no seed, and knowing king Benjamin to be a
  just man before the Lord, wherefore, I shall
  deliver up these plates unto him, exhorting all
  men to come unto God, the Holy One of Israel, and
  believe in prophesying, and in revelations, and
  in the ministering of angels,

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Garden of Eden
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The Adam and Eve Pattern

• And it came to pass that after I, the Lord
  God, had driven them out, that Adam began to
  till the earth, and to have dominion over all
  the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread
  by the sweat of his brow, as I the Lord had
  commanded him. And Eve, also, his wife, did
  labor with him.
• And Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name
  of the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord
  from the way toward the Garden of Eden, speaking
  unto them, and they saw him not for they were
  shut out from his presence.
• And he gave unto them commandments, that they
  should worship the Lord their God, and should
  offer the firstlings of their flocks, for an
  offering unto the Lord. And Adam was obedient
  unto the commandments of the Lord.
•  And after many days an angel of the Lord
  appeared unto Adam

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How were Book of Mormon Prophets taught?

• Nephi
• the angel spake unto meand I saw that the
  Redeemer was lifted up upon the cross and
  slain for the sins of the world. (1 Nephi
  1132,33)
• King Benjamin
• I shall tell you the things made known
  unto me by an angel of Godthat the Lord
  Omnipotent shall dwell in a tabernacle of
  clayand he shall be called Jesus Christ
  (Mosiah 32)
• Jacob
• In the last night, the angel spake unto me
  that..Christ should be his nameand they should
  crucify him (2 Nephi 103)
• Alma
• the spirit hath said this to mehe shall be
  born of Mary, at Jerusalemand he will take upon
  him death. (Alma 710,12)
• Samuel
• the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall suffer many
  things and shall be slain for his people, and
  behold, an angel of the Lord hath declared it
  unto me. (Helaman 137)

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Moroni 7

• Have angels ceased to appear unto the
  children of men? Or has he withheld
  the power of the Holy
  Ghost from them? Or
  will he, so long as time shall
  last, or the earth shall stand, or there
  shall be one man upon the face
  thereof to be saved?
• Behold I say unto you, Nay for it is by faith
  that miracles are wrought and it is by faith
  that angels appear and minister unto men
  wherefore, if these things have ceased wo be unto
  the children of men, for it is because of
  unbelief, and all is vain.
• Moroni 736

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What about in modern times?

• Wilford Woodruff
• I believe the eyes of the heavenly hosts are over
  this people I believe they are watching the
  elders of Israel, the prophets and apostles and
  men who are called to bear off this kingdom. I
  believe they watch over us all with great
  interest.
• I will here make a remark concerning my own
  feelings. After the death of Joseph Smith I saw
  and conversed with him many times in my dreams in
  the night season. On one occasion he and his
  brother Hyrum met me when on the sea going on a
  mission to England.the prophet talked freely to
  me about the mission I was then going to perform.
  
• And he also talked to me with regard to the
  mission of the Twelve Apostles in the flesh, and
  he laid before me the work they had to perform
  and he also spoke of the reward they would
  receive after death. And there were many other
  things he laid before me in his interview on that
  occasion. . . .
• I have had many interviews with Brother Joseph
  until the last 15 or 20 years of my life I have
  not seen him for that length of time. But during
  my travels in the southern country last winter I
  had many interviews with President Young, and
  with Heber C. Kimball, and Geo. A. Smith, and
  Jedediah M. Grant, and many others who are dead.
  They attended our conference, they attended our
  meetings.

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Elder LeGrand Richards

• On May 4, 1978, following a council meeting,
  Elder LeGrand Richards asked President
  Kimball for the privilege of saying a few
  words. He told the Brethren that during the
  meeting, he had seen a personage seated in a
  chair on the organ.
• He said he thought it was President Wilford
  Woodruff.
• "He was dressed in a white suit and was seated in
  an armchair," reported Elder Richards. "I thought
  at the time that the reason I was privileged to
  see him was probably that I was the only one
  there who had ever seen President Woodruff while
  he was upon the earth. I had heard him dedicate
  the Salt Lake Temple and I had heard him give his
  last sermon in the Salt Lake Tabernacle before he
  died." (Lucile C. Tate, LeGrand Richards
  Beloved Apostle, p. 292.)

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So, what about us?

• In our search for answers, are we ever
  aided, though unaware, by angelic
  visitors?
• Mormon
• And now, I say unto you, and I would that ye
  should remember, that God is merciful unto all
  those who believe on his name
• And now, he imparteth his word by angels unto
  men, yea, not only men but women also.
• Now this is not all little children do have
  words given unto them many times, which confound
  the wise and the learned
  (Alma 3222-23)

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Voice of the Spirit

• Still, small voice
• Feelings of peace and calm
• The Comforter
• However
• Have you ever heard a voice?
• Had a sudden, powerful thought, with specific
  info?
• Been directed or guided to do something?

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Young Couple
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Elder Melvin J. Ballard

• "Why is it that sometimes only one of a city or
  household receives the Gospel? It was made known
  to me that it is because the righteous dead who
  have received the Gospel in the spirit world are
  exercising themselves,
• and in answers to their prayers elders of the
  Church are sent to the homes of their posterity .
  . ., and that descendant in the flesh is then
  privileged to do the work for his dead kindred.
• I want to say to you that it is with
  greater intensity that the hearts of
  the fathers and mothers in the spirit world
  are turned to their children now in the
  flesh than that our hearts are turned to
  them."
• (Crusader for Righteousness, p. 219.)

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So, who might minister to us?

• President Joseph F. Smith
• when messengers are sent to minister to the
  inhabitants of this earth, they are not
  strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred,
  friends, and fellow-beings and fellow-servants...
• Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and
  friends who have passed away from this earth,
  having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these
  rights and privileges, may have a mission given
  them to visit their relatives and friends upon
  the earth again, bring from the divine Presence
  messages of love, of warning, or reproof and
  instruction, to those whom they had learned to
  love in the flesh.
• (Gospel Principles, p. 435)

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Robert Millett

• Elder Bruce R. McConkie spoke at the funeral of
  President Joseph Fielding Smith. Later, in a talk
  at the Joseph F. Smith family reunion, Elder
  McConkie told that group that Joseph F. Smith had
  attended the funeral of his son, doing so to
  manifest his interest in the family.
• Such interest and concern is most natural. When a
  righteous man or a righteous woman die, they do
  not cease to love their family in the flesh, they
  do not cease to pray for them, they do not cease
  to labor in their behalf.
• As their family was their primary concern in this
  life, so it will continue to be their primary
  concern on the other side of the veil.
• Life Beyond ( 1986)

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President Eyring

• When we honor the priesthood, we
  have heavenly hosts and angels who are watching
  over us. Some of us know how literally that is
  true.
• Some of us have an absolute assurance that those
  whom we have known who held the priesthood who
  are now part of that heavenly host are deeply
  aware of what we are doing and sometimes deeply
  concerned for the quality of our service.
  Making
  Covenants with God, BYU Devotional

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Recent Email

• I had an experience last week that is very
  special to me. I was directed 'specifically' what
  to do for a couple in our ward.
• The sister later told me that as she related the
  experience to her sister, she responded
  immediately, with That was MOM! That was exactly
  what Mom would have done!
• Brother Hinckley, her mom passed away several
  years ago. She told me she had come to know that
  her mom has been busy doing so many things and
  blessing lives since her passing. 
• I was just so touched and very grateful that I
  could be an instrument.

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Recent Fireside
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Unseen sentinels

• Elder Featherstone
• As the evil night darkens upon the
  this generation, we must come to the
  temple for light and safety. In our temples
  we find quiet, sacred havens where the
  storm cannot penetrate to us.
• There are hosts of unseen sentinels
  watching over and guarding our temples.
  Angels attend every door. As it was in
  the days of Elisha so it will be for
  us, those that be with us are more
  than they that be against us.
• There will be greater hosts of unseen beings in
  the temple. Prophets of old as well as those in
  this dispensation will visit the temples.
• Those who attend will feel their strength and
  feel their companionship. We will not be alone in
  our temples.
  (Temple Statement for the Utah
  South Area, April 1987)

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John A. Widstoe

• I have the feeling . . . that those
  who give themselves with all their
  might and main to this work
  receive help from the other side, and not
  merely in gathering genealogies.
• Whoever seeks to help those on the other side
  receives help in return in all the affairs of
  life
• Genealogical Activities in Europe," Utah
  Genealogical and Historical Magazine 22 (July
  1931) 104.

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Dallas, Texas Temple