FamilySearch’s Dan Call on honoring family history and traditions in the Christmas season
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Church News
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Family history is important to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and during the Christmas season the significance of understanding family traditions and recalling family stories often increases. This episode of the Church News podcast features Dan Call, FamilySearch.org manager of Discovery Experiences and Centers. He explores how Latter-day Saints can learn about and honor their unique family history during the sacred Christmas season.
The Church News Podcast is a weekly podcast that invites listeners to make a journey of connection with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Host Sarah Jane Weaver, reporter and editor for The Church News for a quarter-century, shares a unique view of the stories, events, and most important people who form this international faith. With each episode, listeners are asked to embark on a journey to learn from one another and ponder, “What do I know now?” because of the experience. Produced by KellieAnn Halvorsen
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| 0:00.0 | My life would not be the same without family history. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm not naturally a genealogist. |
| 0:15.5 | I've never been the big researcher. |
| 0:18.1 | But being this close to family history for 13 years has literally transformed me |
| 0:24.5 | as an individual. I think sometimes we think family history is a program. It's not. It is a doctrine |
| 0:32.3 | of the gospel that changes and softens hearts, and it has softened my heart greatly. |
| 0:39.3 | I know that family history can shape, modify. |
| 0:45.6 | It is a doctrine that changes. |
| 0:47.8 | And it's through Christ. |
| 0:49.6 | It is through Jesus Christ. |
| 0:51.1 | It is through His gospel. |
| 0:53.1 | Those powerful temple covenants, it's transformative. |
| 0:57.1 | It truly is. |
| 1:02.2 | This is Sarah Jane Weaver, executive editor of the Church News, welcoming you to the Church |
| 1:07.6 | News podcast. |
| 1:08.9 | We are taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news |
| 1:12.3 | and events of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 1:19.9 | Family history is important to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, |
| 1:24.8 | but the significance of understanding family traditions and recalling |
| 1:29.0 | family stories only increases during the Christmas season. |
| 1:33.4 | On this episode of the Church News podcast, we welcome Dan Call, FamilySearch.org's manager |
| 1:39.4 | of discovery experience and centers. |
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