Temple & Family History

Click HERE to add your progress on our ward goal of "Building a Ward in Heaven."

Forty ways to add oil to your lamp by doing work for your family history:

• Invite Jesus into your life more fully

• Be aware of the blessings you are receiving and your access to God's power because of your involvement in temple and family history work

• Increase your time in the temple

• Pray to be led to your ancestors

• Open a Family Search account

• Record a spiritual experience

• Add a family member's spiritual experience to Family Tree

• Start writing your history

• Make the sabbath a delight by working on your family history

• Rescue a deceased loved one by performing their temple ordinances

• Invite a ward memeber to attend the temple with you

• Invite those you minister to to attend the temple with you

• Consider helping a ward member by completing one of their ordinance cards

• Share a photo to Family Tree and tag people

• Learn a new family history skill

• Teach someone a new family history skill

• Take a class at the Family Search Center

• Walk the temple grounds as a family

• Visit the Temple and Family History section in the Gospel Library

• Visit the grave of a relative

• Interview a loved one

• Text a photo of a fond memory to a family member

• Help someone research their family geneology

• Take a temple preparation course

• Share an ancestor's name with the temple

• Prepare to make temple covenants

• Help someone to come unto Christ through temple and family history work

• Tell a family story to a child or grandchild

• Write the story behind a family heirloom

• Take your kids or grandkids to the temple to perform baptisms for ancestors

• Share your testimony of temple and family history work

• Start a Family Group on Family Tree

• Teach someone to use Ordinances Ready

• Consider being a temple ordinance worker

• Renew your temple recommend

• Download the "Get Involved" app and try one of the opportunities

• Download the "Together" app and try one of the activities

• Make a family or pioneer recipe

• As a family, work on the booklet "My Family: Stories That Bring Us Together"

• Schedule an appointment with a ward temple and family history consultant

Please call anyone on the Family History Committe if you need assistance. We would like to help you prepare names for the temple! 

Keith Halls (801) 540-0505

Becky Halls (801) 540-026

Bryan Barrus  (385) 449-8604

Anna Barrus (801) 814-6730

Sue Duncan (801) 560-2446

Jeff Evans (801) 540-9438

You can also come to the Layton Family History Center for help. Feel free to walk-in, or make and appointment at (801) 784-2100