Read or Summarize D&C 128:18
18 I might have rendered a plainer translation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands. It is sufficient to know, in this case, that the earth will be smitten with a curse unless there is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children, upon some subject or other—and behold what is that subject? It is the baptism for the dead. For we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect. Neither can they nor we be made perfect without those who have died in the gospel also; for it is necessary in the ushering in of the dispensation of the fulness of times, which dispensation is now beginning to usher in, that a whole and complete and perfect union, and welding together of dispensations, and keys, and powers, and glories should take place, and be revealed from the days of Adam even to the present time. And not only this, but those things which never have been revealed from the foundation of the world, but have been kept hid from the wise and prudent, shall be revealed unto babes and sucklings in this, the dispensation of the fulness of times.
Activity
Make a paper chain to represent your family. Start with your children and move up, writing each family member's name on a link. If temple work has not been done for a ancestor, you could explain that that link is not yet welded to the rest of the family, and that break in the chain unwelds all of the ancestors after them to your family chain. If this happens, plan a time that you can go to the temple to do the work for this chain link. You can discover family members on familysearch.org. If your chain is short, now might be a good time to start looking for family members and growing your chain.
Watch
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