Quote: Elder Widtsoe

“Brother Widtsoe reaffirmed that ‘those who give themselves with all their might and mind to this work [genealogical and temple work] receive help from the other side. Whoever seeks to help those on the other side receives help in return in all the affairs of life.’
Source: John A. Widstoe, quoted in Boyd K. Packer’s The Holy Temple, 252.

"The seen and the unseen worlds are closely connected. One assists the other. Those who fail to partake of the privileges and blessings of temple work deprive themselves of some of the choicest gifts within the keeping of the Church. Temple work begins with genealogy."
Source: Quoted by Boyd K. Packer in his book: The Holy Temple

In our preexistent state . . . we made a certain agreement with the Almighty. . . . We agreed, right then and there, to be not only saviors for ourselves but measurably, saviors for the whole human family. . . . We promised to provide those ordinances . . . [and] committed to the great plan of offering salvation to the untold numbers of spirits.
Source:
John A. Widtsoe, “The Worth of Souls,” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 25 (1934): 189–90.

"While temple and family history work has the power to bless those beyond the veil, it has an equal power to bless the living."

"The highest kind of unselfish service is that which we perform for those who cannot do it for themselves, as in temple work."


"It is our duty to secure as complete genealogies as possible, to discover our fathers and mothers back to the last generation, to connect, if it may be possible, with Adam, our first father upon the earth - a duty which we cannot escape."


"If he will leave his problems behind and in the temple work for himself and for his dead, he will confer a mighty blessing upon those who have gone before, and quite as large a blessing will come to him, for at the most unexpected moments, in or out of the temple will come to him, as a revelation, the solution of the problems that vex his life. That is the gift that comes to those who enter the temple properly, because it is a place where revelations may be expected."
Source: https://qtmp.com/quote/74C