Special Fireside for Disaffected Swedish LDS Saints

Mormon Stories ^ | November 28, 2010 | Elder Marlin K. Jensen (LDS Church Historian) and Richard E. Turley Jr

[Elsie]

That’s the hardest bunch to reach with the UN’restored’ gospel; as it is their entire family and lifestyle and culture that will be displaced.

BUT...

...our GOD managed to get through to me; who had NO religious background - other than what little had filtered down through secular society - 50 years ago.

[Elsie]

Ya think the LDS have baptized Trey yet?

ONLY if some family members have advanced his name.

(I think that's how it's supposed to work - I have no information on the details of what we un'restored' Christians refer to as Dead Dunking.)

[Elsie]

I think that's how it's supposed to work - - -

I found some stuff:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints encourages its members to baptize the dead in their families going back at least four generations.

 

The church also has teams at headquarters in Salt Lake City and that travel around the world to identify as many people as possible to baptize,

whether or not they’re in the lineage of present-day Mormons. “The church is constantly going through parish records, wills, deeds and every other

genealogical source so they can extract names and put these people through the temple process,” says Bushman.

 

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/16/explainer-how-and-why-do-mormons-baptize-the-dead/

 

 

 

 

 

[Elsie]

...that there are things we cannot understand about certain aspects of church history...

DANG!

Ol' Joe SHOWED them how to DO it!!

"If any man lack wisdom...