It took a few hours to figure everything out, but I just entered the nieces and nephews of Hartman Meyer into the NEW familysearch site. It appears they had not been submitted before and no work has been done. I wonder if these are the people who have been "haunting" me lately.
There is so much to do - so many names to submit. I think I have 300 more to go. And then there are many more names we need to collect from the records in Switzerland and England. Whoever started the rumor that all our geneology is done was, well --- wrong!
On our trip, we sat in the field where Mina and Tilda played, and we smelled the fragrance from the cherry tree in the back yard of the home that might be Emil Hurler's home (at least his street) and we leaned on the post out front of James Burgon's home, chatting with the neighbors. And the realization that dominated my thoughts was this.
Some missionaries from America told our ancestors about gold plates, a boy prophet, the day Christ and His Father appeared on earth. And gave them a Book of Mormon. And from that, they gained a testimony that was so strong that they left everything - family, husbands, children, homes, careers - everything.
They did not have the expanded version of the church to help strengthen them. There was no girls camp, no Relief Society visting teachers, no general conference or BYU football teams. They didn't even have a nice church building in which to attend church or a hymn book or even little plastic sacrament cups. They had 2 things - the "story" of a new prophet and a book.
And it all comes down to that. Joseph Smith was a prophet - for our time. Jesus and His Father appeared to Joseph. And the Book of Mormon is scripture, written to prophesy to us of Christ and His work.
I stand shoulder to shoulder with my ancestors, and we testify of these things.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
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