At the 2017 Rootstech conference, Wendy W. Nelson, wife of President Russell M. Nelson, observed: “President George Q. Cannon, who was counselor to four Presidents of the Church, taught that in these latter days, those who are joining the Church are joining quite precisely because their ancestors have been praying for one of their posterity to join the Church so that they, the ancestors, can receive their essential ordinances by proxy. That’s when I invite the missionaries to consider that one of their most effective prayers might be, ‘Please lead us to those whose ancestors have already received the gospel on the other side of the veil and who are desperate to receive their ordinances.’"
Russell M. Nelson and Wendy W. Nelson, presentation at RootsTech conference, Feb. 11, 2017, lds.org/topics/family-history/familydiscoveryday; see also “Open the Heavens through Temple and Family History Work,” Ensign, Oct. 2017, 38.
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