Homeschool Adventures

Today we started our first day of homeschool for 2010. My emphasis this year is to install in my children a love of learning. I want them to develop a relationship with knowledge. As they do so I know that they will hunger for more. Today I felt a glimpse of this already. As we were reading about Marco Polo, Kelsey asked if I thought he had joined the church in the spirit world. After a little research I found this quote by Wilford Woodruff

“I will here say, before closing, that two weeks before I left St. George, the spirits of the dead gathered around me, wanting to know why we did not redeem them. Said they, ‘You have had the use of the Endowment House for a number of years, and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apostatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to God.’ These were the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and they waited on me for two days and two nights. I thought it very singular, that notwithstanding so much work had been done, and yet nothing had been done for them. The thought never entered my heart, from the fact, I suppose, that heretofore our minds were reaching after our more immediate friends and relatives. I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon brother McCallister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Columbus, and others; I then baptized him for every President of the United States, except three; and when their cause is just, somebody will do the work for them” (in Journal of Discourses, 19:228–29).

Since then, the temple work of those three presidents has been completed.


How amazing it is when we realize the relationship between our secular knowledge and Godly knowledge our intertwined more than we realize. I am so grateful for the opportunity to help my children see God's hand throughout history and today.