Recording a personal history will be a blessing for posterity
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It has been more than two decades since President Spencer W. Kimball stood at the pulpit of the Tabernacle on Temple Square and counseled members to write personal and family histories for the good of their posterity. During this April 1978 general conference, he said:
"On the bookshelves in my office at home there are 33 large, well-filled journal books. In my journal, a year for each book, I have written daily and filed in this library. It records the trips to many of the nations in the world and all around the world and meetings held, people contacted, marriages performed and all things of interest to my family, and, I hope, someday to the Church.
"I urge all of the people of this Church to give serious attention to their family histories, to encourage their parents and grandparents to write their journals, and let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren and their posterity. This is a duty and a responsibility, and I urge every person to start the children out writing a personal history and journal."
