THINNING OF THE VEIL

In the house of the Lord, those who enter, choose to make sacred covenants, yoking themselves to the Savior, Jesus Christ. Taking part in these sacred ordinances endows you with power from on high. But what does that power look and feel like in our regular, everyday lives? What are some of those inherent spiritual gifts that can aid each of us to help prepare the world for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? In this episode Barbara Morgan Gardner helps to answer some of these very common questions. This talk was originally given at a BYU Devotional on...

So we went and did a thing!!! Wouldn't it be great to meet with other Gatherer's? You could say "Gather the Gatherers". We've decided that March 6, 2026 @6pm is going to be the date and time. The same weekend as RootsTech. It will be in the general vicinity of Salt Lake. We do not have a place yet or much other details because that will depend on the interest that is generated. So please use the link below to let us know if you are interested in coming so we can start to fill in all the other details... and...

FamilySearch and My Heritage are both integral tools for anyone looking to fill out their own family trees. Both apps work in conjunction with one another to help the user fill in the gaps of information that may be contributing to missing family members in their tree. Colette teaches how to navigate between the two apps and how to use My Heritage in an efficient way when seeking for more details and information. My Heritage is a valuable resource for all genealogists of all skill levels.


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Our Heavenly Father is in relentless pursuit of all of His sons and daughters on both sides of the veil. There is no place that is found on earth that He does not go in order to pursue the one, including in prison. In this episode, a story is related by J. Richard Clarke, in a BYUI Speech given on February of 1993, about the loving, mercy of the Savior Jesus Christ. A prisoner in the Utah State Prison, experienced healing as he helped in his own way, to free souls through family history work. Truly a remarkable story of...

Jessica Hardiman, grew up in difficult circumstances. One huge part of finding peace during those tumultuous years was having the influence of her grandmother who constantly reminded Jessica that she was a daughter of God. Later in life, Jessica believes it was the influence of her grandmother as well as other family members on the other side of the veil, that lead her back to the gospel of Jesus Christ. She calls them her "Team of Light". Now a year into her coming back to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,  she is experiencing the gospel i...

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 communication to bring about His great purposes.

YouTube 5 Ways that Angels Communicate with Us Video Link: https://youtu.be/vEOSfgo7XXk

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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 to My Heritage Video: https://youtu.be/fjFBEGl55ks

YouTube Thinning of the Veil Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCAA9WnYhYvCp1ffCe-AGUQQ 

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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 84:88). That promise is being fulfilled in the lives of missionaries serving all over the world. Angels continuously watch over and protect this mighty...

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 revelation.” In this episode we study the doctrines and principles surrounding spirit to spirit communications from the other side of the veil. Angels speak by the power of the...

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. If we will turn our studies to the language in which the Holy Spirit communicates we will find many answers we seek and revelatory experiences will unfold...

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 experiences instead of just detailed dates and names. Using Gemini can help your genealogy become alive and broaden it's scope of meaning and purpose.

YouTube: Using Gemini to Transcribe Documents Video: https://youtu.be/0kD4567pN6s

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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 an article written for LDS Living magazine, on November 11, 2019, she describes in detail the angelic interventions that are inherent in the Gathering of Israel. Sister Nelson testifies and encourages...

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 recognize these communications as being familiar. Through the Holy Ghost, who is a Spirit, we can receive instruction, reproof, and directions on how to Gather Israel more effectively. Brent Top, describes what he learned over...

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 those who entered into this eternal family unit and what does that have to do with us in these latter days? Promises from the Lord matter. Covenants with Jesus Christ matter. And we...

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 tree. The Lord said that He would hasten His work in His time. Truly AI has been a technological miracle in helping reunite families on both sides of the veil.

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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 restored through angelic ministrations. Not just any set of angels, the ancient fathers themselves helped to restore this knowledge in the latter days. Adam, Peter, Paul, Moroni, and others were among the...

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 Abrahamic Covenant. What are some of these lesser known promised blessings? How do we as His children in the last days attain to these incomprehensible blessings?  It is left to us to offer these sacred op...

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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. There is much to learn about the Spirit World and what happens after we die, and Brother Satterfield adds to our learning about this sacred subject.

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"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, cemeteries must be visited, in order for these long lost relatives to be found. Colette, goes over this very valuable app, that she uses every time she goes on vacation. It has led to many miracles for her...

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 into dark and forbidden paths. They see the temptations and evils that beset us in life and the proneness of mortal beings to yield to temptation and wrong d...

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 experience.  Michael Solesbee was blessed to see a glimpse into the sacred beyond. He was taught things about the gathering of Israel and given a forewarning into what is n...

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 to become as They are. Bruce R. McConkie, testifies of this beautiful doctrine and teaches that for us to become as They are, we must enter in to the same covenants that we...

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 top computer in this episode. The Lord's work truly expands beyond boundaries and time and He has inspired these newer technologies to help Him in His work. It is through small and simple...

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 interconnectedness of the work of the Gathering of Israel. What exactly is immortality and eternal life? How does eternal life progress to the plurality of eternal lives? Everything in the temple points us to the glory and work...

"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 manifestations that would follow this thinning of the veil experience, but she trusted in the Lord. The prophecy in Isaiah was literally being fulfilled in a some small way as she began the seemingly impossible task...

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 April of 1985, he masterfully teaches about this most important eternal doctrine. This promise does not just stop at our meetinghouse sacrament tables, but extends...

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 prayers on how to make their family whole after a very complicated family life. Jesus Christ is the Master Healer who heals us as we heal the generations in His holy house.
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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 we will study some of the "Gathering" names of the Jesus Christ. As we start to understand the meaning of each name, we can...

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 your friends and family or keep it private. This app was made with the intent that you can and should be experiencing thinning of the veil...

"The temple lies at the center of strengthening our faith and spiritual fortitude because the Savior and His doctrine are the very heart of the temple. Everything taught in the temple, through instruction and through the Spirit, increases our understanding of Jesus Christ," said President Russell M. Nelson. Oftentimes when we attend the temple we are thinking about everything except the Savior and yet each temple is a sacred, holy, literal house of God. We can know more about the Savior there than anywhere else. How can we learn more about Him, more about His love, and receive more...

During a very difficult time in Lorenzo Snow's life, the Savior gave him very detailed instructions through an unexpected, miraculous thinning of the veil experience. We can learn quite a lot about how to use some of the tools that President Snow utilized, in our own seeking to thin the veil. As we study this sacred interaction, we will be taught line upon line and precept upon precept as we approach the veil. God is no respecter of persons and truly all are invited to part the veil between heaven and earth. When the pattern is followed, many can...

Boyd K. Packer in this General Conference talk, not only testifies of the importance of the gathering of Israel, but also teaches many very short, succinct principles related to the holy work done in temples. One of the most comforting doctrines that he teaches is, "Veils can become thin, even parted. We are not left to do this work alone. They who have preceded us in this work and our forebears there, on occasion, are very close to us." We are not alone in the performance of our sacred work. Those on the other side of the veil are...

Creators at FamilySearch have created a new app that helps recording special moments in real time, it also helps to create memories and stories for ancestors who have passed, find ancestors who are ready to have their work done, and also can organize how we approach doing family history. It is truly an all in one app that is easy to understand and use. Colette will cover this new app in three parts, going in to detail on each episode, so you will walk away an expert even though you may be just beginning your family history journey.
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What do three separate dreams from three different people have in common? The answer...miracles that surround the Gathering of Israel. The Lord's work of the Gathering will always include miracles and mighty manifestations. Revelation can and will come in whatever form God chooses to communicate. It is clear that the prophecy in Joel 2, that your old men and woman and young men and woman, will receive revelatory communication through dreams and visions in the last days to His worthy and willing servants.

YouTube 3 Revelatory Gathering Dreams Video: https://youtu.be/91SJu_1UEG8

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"Within the Church there is an established pattern for receiving revelation and instructions", says Elder Marvin J. Ashton. The doctrine of parting the veil is no different. There are established patterns in the scriptures that teach not only how one can part the veil, but also that we should be seeking to understand this doctrine more fully.  President Nelson has promised that we can learn how to part the veil in the temple. If we will study the patterns in the scriptures, listen to modern day revelation from the Lord's mouthpieces, and study the life of the Savior, we w...

Truman Madsen is a true scholar of the gospel of Jesus Christ. He has frequently taught on the subject of temples. This talk, given at a BYUI devotional was given on October 26, 2004. Brother Truman covers many aspects of temple worship and how to improve our own individual tutoring in the house of the Lord. Some of the things he covers are the relationship between our own mortal bodies and temples. He also discusses the importance of the marriage ordinance in our eternal progression to become like our Heavenly Parents. These are just a few doctrines packed into this very...

FamilySearch is always changing, allowing for easier usage of the website and also faster and easier ways to help your family on the other side of the veil. Today, Colette demonstrates the new Temple Ordinances tool that is still in it's testing phase. However, it is easily accessible for most individuals, and allows you to invite others to use this amazing new technology. You most definitely will not be saying all your temple work is done for your ancestors, when you use this new tool. 

YouTube: New!!! FamilySearch Campaign Temple Ordinances Tool Video: https://youtu.be/RY45p...

Wilford Woodruff is no stranger to trials and soul trying experiences. His wife Phebe became critically ill and died. Wilford, who was extremely despondent, had a revelation that he should bring her back through priesthood power. Phebe was given the choice to come back if she would help her husband and sustain him in his priesthood roles. This extraordinary story of love and the power of the priesthood culminate in Phebe coming back from the dead with a knowledge that the Spirit World is real and that each individual is known to our Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ...

There are times in our lives when only help from the other side of the veil can help us. The Davis Family experienced a very traumatizing event on a camping trip on July 18th of this year. Chase had a serious accident and by all accounts, should have died. However, Shelley Davis felt a host of heavenly angels directing medical personnel and protecting her son, who made a full recovery. Shelley testifies that some of those angels were those who she had done temple work for. The power of the priesthood on both sides of the veil, made sure...

In a general conference talk in October of 1972, Elder Burton addressed the importance of each person, old or young, to participate in temple and family history work. It is a priesthood responsibility, Elder Burton even calling it, "Priesthood genealogy". He also teaches one of the meanings of the earth would be and will be smitten with a curse if we do not personally participate. He points the importance of saving our own ancestors and that when we do we fulfill ancient prophecy.

YouTube "Genealogy: A Personal Responsibility" Video Link: https://youtu.be/scfP5uBfsZE

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