Saviors On Mount Zion

She was converted & baptized into the Church in 1924. It was then that they began to happen. The dreams.

In the dreams, her deceased grandmother- who had raised her- appeared & asked, “Would you like to see your mother?” 

Orphaned as a baby, she answered, “Oh yes!” 

Her grandmother led her into a dark room.

She said, “I can’t see anything. It is so dark!”

Her grandmother told her she must come farther. Taking her by the hand, she led her from room to room, each darker than the last.

Until finally, “Here is your mother now.” 

Then came her mother’s voice, “Child, child, save me!”

She did not know what to make of the dreams. One day she told her branch president.

And for the first time, she learned of baptisms for the dead.

She “understood immediately.”

Her dream was about temple work.

Thirty years later, as soon as her family immigrated to America & could get to a temple, her mother’s work (& many others!) was completed.

(Story taken from an interview with my great-grandmother in 1959.)

Joseph Smith said to the Saints in D&C 128, “I now resume the subject of the ​​​baptism​ for the dead, as that subject seems to occupy my mind, & press itself upon my feelings the strongest…”

Kind of like a recurring dream.

I don’t think my ancestors are literally waiting in dark rooms. 

But spiritually speaking- they are. They cannot progress without us!

For “they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made ​​​perfect​.” (15)

What a beautiful plan, that the gospel is offered to ALL. We choose, each one of us. Even the dead.

“He went & ​​​preached​ unto the ​​​spirits​ in ​​​prison​“ (1 Pet. 3:19)

“For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead” (1 Pet. 4:6)

“He… commissioned them to go forth & carry the light of the gospel to them that were in darkness, even to all the spirits of men; & thus was the gospel preached to the dead.” (D&C 138:30)

The light of the gospel.

To those in darkness.

“Child, save me!”

“But how are they to become saviors on Mount Zion? By building their temples … & herein is the chain that binds the hearts of the fathers to the children, & the children to the fathers” (Joseph Smith)