THINNING OF THE VEIL

Angels can communicate with Heavenly Father's mortal children in a variety of ways. Elder David W. Parry covers some of these spiritually communicative ways in an article written in LDS Living on Sept. 21, 2020. Through his doctrinal research he noted 5 specific ways that one can experience these revelatory manifestations. The Lord can, for His own purposes, allow spirit to spirit communicati...

My Heritage is an online genealogy company with web, app, and other online services. With access to over 19.9 billion accessible records it is one of the top tools for genealogists. You can also access many users trees and upload photos. In this episode Colette shows how to begin to navigate My Heritage more efficiently, getting better results in finding long lost ancestors. YouTube: Introduction...

The Gathering of Israel occurs on both sides of the veil. The Lord promised in the early beginnings of this last dispensation to His co laborers in the vineyard, "And whoso receiveth you, there I will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up" (D&C 84:8...

Boyd K. Packer said, "“Should an angel converse with you, neither you nor he would be confined to corporeal sight or sound in order to communicate. For there is that spiritual process described by the Prophet Joseph by which pure intelligence can flow into our minds and by which we can know what we need to know without either the effort of study or the passage of time, because that is revelat...

Revelation and visions "are around us all the time...but we do not hear or see or experience (them) because we have not tuned our souls to the wave band on which the Holy Ghost is broadcasting," Bruce R. McConkie. The visions and experiences of great men and women in the gospel of Jesus Christ are available to all who seek and who also understand the laws by which they are communicated....

The advancements in technology, including Google's Gemini AI Platform, has made genealogy a less time consuming and frustrating process. In today's Gathering Academy episode, Colette shows how to transcribe written documents, edit old photos, and create research help outlines. With the use of this and other technologies our ancestral past becomes a rich narrative of people and experience...

Like a lot of latter day saints, Wendy Nelson, did not enjoy family history. In fact the operative word that she described when even thinking about doing genealogy was "guilt". That changed one day as she decided to pray about and for those who needed help on the other side of the veil. What followed that and many other prayers were many miracles and thinning of the veil experiences. In...

In the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the opening of the heavens constitutes in part, revelation being sent from the other side of the veil. These revelatory experiences are received through various means and ways and very often received from heavenly messengers. How does heaven and earth communicate with each other? Our spirits are more refined and inherently recogn...

The House of Israel has ever been an important part in the Lord's kingdom here upon the earth. His covenant's and promises have extended through this familial ancestral line from the beginning. In the this talk, originally given on November 22, 1988, at BYU, then Elder Russell M. Nelson, explains the origins of how this family came to be. What was so important about the promises made to...

Are there old letters, hard to read documents, or family history records that you don't understand because they are in foreign languages? In this episode Colette details how Gemini helped her in deciphering various family documents. This new technology facilitates the adding of lost memories, allows for more effective research, and ultimately helps to add more family members to your family tr...

To bring about the purposes of our Heavenly Father and Savior, angels have been sent from the very beginning to His children here upon the earth. In the early stages of the last dispensation, Joseph Smith was called upon to be the prophet of the restoration. Many doctrines, priesthood power, and other related instruction related to the restoring of the promises made to the ancient fathers were res...

Through out the generations of time, beginning with Adam and Eve, the Lord has always extended promised blessings to those children on the earth who make and keep sacred covenants with Him. Our scriptures are replete with promises of land, posterity, and other cherished gifts.  While some of these blessings are well known, there are many blessings that are clearly not understood within the Abraham...

Originally given at BYU Education Week on August 4, 2024, Brother Satterfield covers some aspects of the expansive doctrine of the Spirit World. He teaches several principles that relate to the Spirit World and our continuing journey following mortality. In his instructions, he is careful to use citations from the scriptures and prophets that verify what he is teaching as true doctrines of the Chu...

"BillionGraves is the world's largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data". From anywhere in the world, people can locate a cemetery, take a picture, and upload that information into world wide data base. When seeking to find ancestors, it is a helpful tool, as sometimes cemetery headstones are the only recorded evidences that someone lived. However, the work must be done, cem...

President Joseph F. Smith said,  "I believe we move and have our being in the presence of heavenly messengers and of heavenly beings... I claim that we live in their presence, they see us, they are solicitous for our welfare, they love us now more than ever. For now they see the dangers that beset us; they can comprehend better than ever before, the weaknesses that are liable to mislead us in...

President Brigham Young taught that the Spirit World is on this earth, around us. Many individuals through the generations have seen into the spirit world, most notably, President Joseph F. Smith, who helped further our understanding of the work that those on the other side of the veil are involved in. Every day members can also get glimpses from time to time about the what is to follow our mortal...

Eternal Life according to God's definition is to live as He lives. One of the main attributes about God's life is that He lives in a Family Unit. He, along with our Heavenly Mother, live in the Patriarchal order within the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage. Within this eternal union, Father and Mother continue the family unit for eternity, offering their own offspring the chance t...

FamilySearch has implemented modern tools like AI, to help families all around the world, past and present, come together. A helpful function within the Together App has provided a way to connect records available in different countries to the tree in a remarkable simple, fast, easy way. Anyone can help with expanding the global tree. Colette instructs how to navigate this newer function on a desk...

In one of the great revelatory experiences of Moses, he was taught an essential truth and confirming identity of God's sons and daughters. "For behold, this is my work and my glory, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." (Moses 1:39) This profound statement of truth should provide pause in contemplating one's own mortality, future ordinations, and the interc...

"And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations." (Isaiah 61:4). Colette flew across the globe to Krakow, Poland, based on a revelatory dream. She knew the Lord had sent her there to reunite families who had been forgotten. She did not know what amazing miracles and manifestation...

Every Sabbath day countless members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day partake in a sacred ordinance. In the sacrament promises are made and blessings are extended. One of the promises that we weekly agree to is that we are willing to take upon us the name of Jesus Christ. To keep a covenant you have to understand it in its fullness. In this talk given by then Elder Dallin H. Oaks, in Apr...

Sister Reyna Aburto, speaking to temple presidents and matrons on Oct. 17, 2019, testified of the miracles and thinning of the veil experiences that brought her family back together eternally. She relates that in the temple she found healing for herself and her family. The Lord allowed her and her mother to have a glimpse of their husband/father on the other side of the veil, answering fervent pra...

Every Sunday, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints gather to partake of the sacred emblems of the Sacrament. In that holy ordinance we covenant that we are willing to take upon ourselves of the name of the Savior. What does this mean? How do we keep this weekly covenant if we do not yet fully understand what it means. The Savior is referred to by many names. In this episode w...

In this second episode of a three part series, Colette covers how to find temple ready names in multiple ways on the new FamilySearch Together app. Not only is it more easier than ever to take family names with you to the temple, but the Together app also helps you to record the sacred experiences that you may have while saving your ancestor. There is an option to make that experience public with...

Elder Allen Haynie teaches that the temple is where we can come to know Jesus Christ in a more intimate and sacred way — quoting President Russell M. Nelson's teaching that "the Savior and His doctrine are the very heart of the temple." This talk addresses who is ready to enter the house of the Lord, what it means to pray and ask if your time is now, and why worthy, unhurried prepar...