How President Nelson Receives Revelation for the Church Through Dreams (+How a Dream Beyond the Veil United One Family for Eternity)
While touring with President Russell M. Nelson through central and eastern Canada, Elder Neil L. Andersen noted how his close interactions with the prophet over the last week have helped him obtain greater insight into our prophet and how he directs the Church today.
On Facebook, Elder Andersen wrote:
"President Russell M Nelson and Sister Nelson were powerful tonight. Sister Nelson spoke of the changes and revelations in the night coming to the Prophet since his call in January of this year. President Nelson spoke of the preparations necessary in each of our lives as we anticipate the completion of a temple. The construction of the temple in Winnipeg is just beginning, and President Nelson showed the members for the first time a rendering of this House of the Lord. We visited the temple site, located in an upscale suburb of Winnipeg, extremely visible as large boulevards are on two sides of the property.
"Tonight I want to refer to a conversation at the dinner table in the home of the mission president and his wife, President and Sister Craig Hitchcock. The Hitchcocks grew up in the same neighborhood as someone President Nelson spoke about in a general conference talk in October 2015 and April 2016, the Hatfield family. We learned even more in the dinner discussion.
"In 1958 President Nelson operated on two little girls with very severe congenital heart disease. Both died. A son had previously died. Jimmy and Ruth Hatfield were spiritually shattered. Through the years President Nelson learned that they harbored lingering resentment toward him and the Church. For nearly six decades, President Nelson grieved for the Hatfields. He tried to establish contact with them without success.
"He then explained to us that in May of 2015, he was awakened by those two little girls from the other side of the veil. Their message to him was brief and clear, 'Brother Nelson, we are not sealed to anyone! Can you help us?'
"Soon after this, President Nelson learned that their mother had passed away, but that their father, Jimmy, and their younger brother, Shawn, were still alive. He again reached out to Jimmy and this time Jimmy was willing to meet with him.
"President Nelson told us how he felt as he met the father and brother. To show his love and respect, he literally knelt in front of Jimmy, who was then 88, and talked to him heart to heart. He told Jimmy and Shawn about the visit from the girls, and that he would be honored to perform the sealing, but it would take work, as neither Jimmy or Shawn had been endowed.
"Jimmy and Shawn accepted President Nelson's challenge to prepare themselves and months later in the Payson Utah Temple, President Nelson sealed the family together. President Nelson told of how he and Sister Nelson wept as the family was together in the temple.
"We had heard the story in general conference, but the power of those from the other side to at times pierce the veil, the importance of the sealing ordinances, 'the humility to let go of old hurts and habits,' and the redemptive joy streaming from the Savior's Atonement, all brought a beautiful peace to our dinner together. Shawn Hatfield continues to stay in touch with President Nelson, telling him of the wellbeing of his father and the family's continued progress.
"We felt the sureness of President Nelson's witness, his love for this good family, and his devotion to the ordinances of the House of the Lord. It was a time never to be forgotten."
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