Temple and family history work (including the history of).
President Boyd K. Packer taught that “this signal event went unheeded by the world, but it would influence the destiny of every soul who has ever lived or will live. Things began to quietly happen. The Church became a temple-building church.
“In the world there emerged here and there, in a way thought to be spontaneous, people and organizations and societies interested in tracing genealogies. This has all taken place since the appearance of Elijah in the Kirtland Temple.”
“From that very day, April 3, 1836, the hearts of the children began to turn to their fathers. Thereafter ordinances were not tentative, but permanent. The sealing power was with us. No authorization transcends it in value. That power gives substance and eternal permanence to all ordinances performed with proper authority for both the living and the dead.”
Prior to receiving those sealing keys there was little to differentiate the legal authority of various denominations even when Joseph and Oliver had received proper priesthood authority. That restoration of authority was not complete until the keys of sealing were given.
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