Rootstech 2022!

6 Reasons to Attend Rootstech 2022

I am going to be listening to and watching Rootstech 2022 starting March 3 through March 5! Join me in the virtual feast!

Classes for the event will have a mix of on-demand, livestream and interactive sessions that will allow attendees to learn, grow and connect to people all over the globe. Participants will also be able to connect with fellow attendees, speakers, experts and enthusiasts.

The conference is free and open to anyone. For updates, follow RootsTech on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

The 2022 theme is “Choose Connection.” Family Search is encouraging participants “to #chooseconnection, whether it’s by learning about ancestors, traveling to homelands steeped in your heritage, or even discovering how you’re related to your friends, you can make powerful connections to the people and places that matter most to you.”

A new set of educational classes will be featured during 2022, along with new technologies to explore in the virtual expo hall and inspiring stories shared by keynote speakers. Keynote speakers include Argentine singer Diego Torres, American actor Matthew Modine, French baker Apollonia Poilâne, Ghanaian boxer Samuel Azumah Nelson, Food Network’s Molly Yeh, Palestinian comedian Maysoon Zayid, and Brazilian actress Thaís Pacholek.

March 2, 2022

I did it! I got up at 4:15 am! I went to sign into Family Search and noticed on the main page of the Church of Jesus Christ website a video about Family History. I watched the video and recorded the blessings and promises made regarding participation in Family History.

Blessings and Promises of Participating in Family History

  • Strengthen me
  • Purify my heart
  • Provide purpose
  • Assurance of eternal life
  • Power of godliness will flow into my life
  • Latter day work (of Family History) will destroy the powers of darkness and bring about the salvation of the human family
  • Time in temple will change my life
  • Identify what I can set aside to spend more time in the temple
  • Bless me with greater harmony and love in my home
  • Deeper desire to care for eternal family relationships
  • Increased faith in Jesus Christ
  • Greater ability to follow him as a true disciple
  • Family history has a healing influence
  • Assurance that each person is precious in eyes of Heavenly Father
  • Learn who I am
  • Learn where I come from
  • Learn where I am going
  • Receive strength and direction for my life
  • My participation in Family History will come back to me
  • Promise that participation in Family History will help fortify my home to become a defense and refuge
  • Family History connects me to heaven
  • Gives me eternal perspective
  • Equal power to bless and refine those who engage in Family History
  • Strengthen and protect our youth
  • Never be alone
  • Ministering angels know who I am and care for me and love me and will become a vital part of my fortification in my home
  • Seek inspiration and revelation
  • Safeguard, guide and protect
  • Increase my ability to hear Him

I also read an article: Becoming Better After Experiencing the Bitter (churchofjesuschrist.org)https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/becoming-better-after-experiencing-the-bitter?lang=eng

Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has emphasized the importance of building Christlike character by turning outward in the midst of our own trials: “Character is revealed … in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress. Therefore, character is demonstrated by looking, turning, and reaching outward when the instinctive response of the natural man in each of us is to turn inward and to be selfish and self-absorbed.”6

a person staring at a starry sky

Search inward, Turn outward, Look upward, and Press forward