Sunday, February 15, 2009

An impression to "bolt"

Elder Allan F. Packer, son of Elder Boyd K. Packer, spoke at a special devotional recently in the theater of the Conference Center. He told the following story: During his growing up years his large family always had a horse. One day his father was sitting in a chair inside the house reading. Suddenly Elder Packer (Boyd K.) had a sudden, very urgent impression to get up and go outside. It was such a strong impression that it literally caused him to bolt out of his chair. He "bolted" outside just in time to see the family horse come running around the corner of the house with one of his young sons hanging by only his foot in the stirrup. Elder Packer was able to catch the horse and stop it, saving his son's life. As we work on our family history, we need to be attentive to the Spirit for those times when we may feel a prompting to literally "bolt" out of our comfort and urgently prepare the work for one of our kindred dead, an act that will literally deliver a soul from the spirit prison and save one of our own.
This work is real and bears eternal fruit. An 81-year-old sister, an accomplished genealogist, found her grandmother last Thursday. She had been looking for her for 50 years. What rejoicing!

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