Excerpts From LDS Church News

Are you passionate about family stories? Do you have an interest in learning how to discover your roots? If so, the 2018 RootsTech Family Discovery Day is for you, and you can attend or watch live from anywhere in the world.

RootsTech Family Discovery Day is a 1-day free event on March 3, 2018, designed to help LDS individuals and families discover and celebrate their family heritage—past, present, and future. Family Discovery Day originates at the RootsTech family history conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Watch live stream

General sessions featuring select leaders and general officers of the Church will be streamed live on the home page of LDS.org in English, Spanish, and Portuguese so that members of the Church around the world can participate.

Watch later

If you can’t watch live on March 3 starting at 1:00 p.m. MST, videos of the messages from Family Discovery Day will be archived at lds.org/discoverfamily for later viewing in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Note: RootsTech is pleased to announce Elder and Sister Oaks as featured speakers at the popular Family Discovery Day, happening Saturday, March 3, 2018.   In addition to hearing from Elder and Sister Oaks, you will: Hear inspiring messages and performances from special guests, including popular LDS speaker Hank Smith, America’s Got Talent finalist Evie Clair, popular singer Kenya Clark, and prominent Latin American artist, Alex Melecio. Experience the interactive expo hall, where families and friends can create a visual family tree, recreate family history photographs, and more. Enjoy the RootsTech closing event, My Family, Mi Herencia, featuring Luz de Las Naciones. Attend a selection of classes designed to teach you how to find family names, prepare them for temple blessings, and teach others how to do the same. Register here.

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You are invited to take a few minutes and watch this amazing, inspiring session from Rootstech 2017! Rootstech Family Discovery Day 2017!  Reno Mahe, former BYU football player and current BYU running back coach, surprised the crowd at RootsTech as a substitution for the second segment of the day, filling in for BYU head coach Kalani Sitake. Mahe joined another former BYU football great Vai Sikahema, and Sheri Dew. The trio shared a powerful testimony of the importance of temple and family history work. Mahe, whose 3-year-old daughter Elsie passed away in November following an accident, was asked to share the things he has learned in the time since the accident. “Honestly, it’s just me riding my wife’s coattail. I’ve got a great companion,” Mahe said before sharing that he is now part of a club that you never want to be a part of, having lost a child. “One of the things I’ve learned is that she’s an angel on the other side now that is watching over us and I never thought about it in that way.”