2021 RootsTech: Elder and Sister Holland "Connection and Belonging in the Family of God" 

14:42 - Hearing Elder Holland speak of a reunion with his baby brother who passed away was very touching. Who do you look forward to meeting most on the other side?

About 12 or 13 years ago I was incarcerated at the Utah State prison and I remember elder Holland visited a a small group of us in the prison chapel.. I remember him expressing his love for all of us he said that the Lord had walked those Halls and understood our challenges and in the end Elder Holland expressed his love for each and one of us regardless of our circumstances at the time.. thank you elder Holland I love and appreciate you as well..

I love Elder and Sister Holland! You have made a difference in my life and all those who will take the time to learn and listen will be uplifted by their words and testimony. We will miss Sister Holland! Thank you for your tremendous examples!

How much you beautiful people have always touched my life and everyone that I share you with. I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH THANK YOU ALWAYS

July 2023, sister Holland slip into her next estate. She did well with her life. You can see the live in her eyes and her countenance. You see Christ in her face. This videos message spoke to me.

Love love love seeing Elder and Sister Holland with their children and hearing about how impactful those little moments of sharing the gospel with them were. 🤍

Knees are really aching if you walked around the world like Elder Holland 😢

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. THANKS SO MUCH !!! I CAN'T STOP CRYING. :)

I loved this visit of the Hollands with the parents and the children.

I don’t know if I’m teary eyed because of how sweet this video is or if it’s seeing Elder Holland with a walker 😣🥺 Love this gospel so much! And the promise that we can be sealed together with our families forever! 🤍

Families Are Forever! I vow never to forget God The Eternal Father, Jesus Christ our brother and my earthly father's before me. Oh God, The Eternal Father, I glorify thy name, not my will but thine be done. 🙏🏼 Let There Be Light

Makes me miss my dad. This is sweet. This is what families are about. Faith. Friends. Family. Thanks for sharing Holland family

Love you Elder & Sis Holland you’re amazing couple.

Elder Holland and his wife and family speak of very important things I myself no they are true. It seems to bring out the good and sometimes the bad. That is the time to heal the bad and get rid of the hard feelings that will Cloud your life in darkness. Thank you brother Holland for your service and countless hours serving the lord Jesus Christ. I am grateful to be apart of this great church of Jesus Christ in these letter days. It is a awesome blessing to take part going to the temple.

I have a calm feeling as I listen to these family stories. Very open hearted and deeply meaningful to your family and also to me to go and do the same, to tell my stories. I love the way the Holland children cherish their parents. This is genuine and beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

I grew up in St.George it always feels like home to me too so I understand -- Thank you Holland family we love and appreciate your testimonies and service☀☀☀☀☀☀☀☀

I was so moved by the words spoken in this video. I felt the Spirit touch my heart. Thank you Brother and Sister Holland!

This was HUGELY edifying. For someone who grew up in a very dysfunctional family, this helps me to learn a better way. Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us.

I call the principles taught in this video, "the ties that bind". Ties that bind a husband to his wife, a child to their parents, us to our progenitors, us to our future posterity. Indeed the ties that bind us to our Heavenly Home, our Heavenly Father. The more consistant, enduring, and frequent we can create these ties, make our relationships stronger and more difficult to break! Thank you so much for sharing this reminder of ways to strenthen the ties!

Grateful that we are cousins. But grateful for his ministry of Jesus Christ to the one. The one family, the one person, and the one world.

A lot of this video moved me to tears but seeing Elder Holland walk with a walker and still sit in the middle seat of the car especially touched me. What a loving and caring person!

This has been a remarkable video! I'm so grateful to have seen it. I've recently moved to St. George and found myself in Elder Holland's former ward family. Sister Holland, my great grandmother came to America from Switzerland at the age of 7! Elder Holland my grandson, the first missionary from our family, served his mission in Ireland. You mentioned something that I will have to go back and listen to again that resonated with me. I immediately thought of how over the years, because of an experience at the age of 6, I have stayed true and built upon that treasured feeling..."that the baby Jesus is real, and is someone special to cling to"! I remember growing up drawing closer to my Savior, (always being brought back to that Christmas experience when only 6), and eventually at the age of 36, I was brought to the knowledge of our Savior's true Church, where I joined, that December, at the age of 37 and have enjoyed learning, living, and sharing this true and wonderful gospel! Thank you both for this very special tour of the area I get to call my new home! And for the thoughts and experiences your whole, immediate, family shared!

Absolutely loved this post...thank you so much. My late husband and I spent just one day in St George 49 years ago as visitors from Rhodesisa (Zimbawe) I was blessed with returning to that city ,St George , again 6 years ago ....this time as a widow ...but not alone....my travel companions were my first Missionary companion and her husband. I was reminded of that trip and the sweet reminder of staying in the home of one of the Elders who had taught my husband and his family the Gospel. So Grateful that the Holland family were all together and shared so much of the city and their lives . ( Just have to end by saying .....I served my mission in The Netherlands ..... usually just known as Holland !)

Perhaps Elder Holland's finest hour!!

Amazing family! My favorite video since Patricia's passing 🙏 RIP and love sister Holland ❤❤❤

Thank you elder holland and family for sharing with us your story. I am deeply touched and would like to strengthen my bond with my family and relatives as well and know stories about my ancestors and pass it on to my children.

This is such a Cute story! Sister Holland is just beautiful!

Thank you very much Elder and Sister Holland for this wonderful thoughts and the memories of your life and i love you both.

Oh, this just made me giggle and cry, the whole way through. Thanks for sharing, Holland’s. I have always LOVED Elder Holland AND St. George. I had no idea they were connected! No wonder I love all those buildings and places!! You’re some of my most favorite people!!! All 5 of you!! Thanks for being an example and light of goodness!! 🤍🤍

Elder, Sister Holland and family thank you so much for sharing your beautiful memories and stories of family, home, and service to our Heavenly Father. This was beautiful! My favorite place and favorite thing to do is to be in the House of the Lord connecting my family together. I am a convert to the church in 1989. Since childhood, I have always felt my ancestors from the other side of the veil reaching out to me, nudging me and directing me. I was in a traumatic automobile accident in 1981 and I wondered why I was saved. A couple of years ago, I was kneeling at the alter as proxy for a sealing of a child. I was looking into the Sealer's eyes and it came to me this is WHY. I am the only member of my family. I am so grateful for my many blessings. This year June 9th will be the 40th anniversary of my accident.

I adopted these two as my surrogate parents when I was young, but they never knew it. I love them both. I got to have a big hug from Jeffrey Holland when I was in my 20's. I told him that I love his wife and he told me that he gets that all the time and I love her too. She is a marvelous woman. Matt and I have the same exact birthday! We are twins separated at birth. Hahaha.

I am loving these stories. I know a Randall from Enterprise, UT, he served a mission and was one of the elders who taught us in 1963 when we were baptized into a very small branch at Cortland, NY, and later we went to BYU and after taking a beginning class and becomming very interested, I became a genealogist and have done research for 50+ years... when we were at BYU, my brother and I went to visit the Randalls in Enterprise at the holidays and enjoyed that little town a bit... we are from a small town in NY and my other brother still lives on the small farm we grew up on... its always fun to go visit the old homestead in Moravia, NY. Cheers!

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful family and memories! And I truly deeply need those promises you have made! Thank you!🥰

I did not come from a church family such at the Holland's. My mother and father got married in the temple but my father never stepped foot into another temple again. My mother was inactive her whole life and and attended the temple maybe 3 times in her life after being sealed. There are many of us that have to blaze the trail alone and hope when we fall down we have the courage and strength to get ourselves back up. I realize now that some of us are tested differently than others. I do not have much hope in my life that my mother and father will be with me in the eternities. I do not believe in death bed repentance. I firmly believe that now is the time to do that which is required of God. Now is the time while having a body on this earth to do the things required to get back home to Him. I believe that once I am gone from this earth I cannot repent without a body of flesh and bones. I am eternally grateful for this knowledge. "Now is the time to prepare. Then, when death comes, we can move toward the celestial glory that Heavenly Father has prepared for His faithful children.” Russell M. Neslon

Thank you so much for this wonderful great video, which made me feel so much spirit and it is awesome. Thank you ELder Holland and Sister Holland. God Bless you and your family.

That was wonderful! I am looking forward to meetting my great aunt Maggie John and the Allisons on my mom's side for whom we were able to their work . Even another sweet sister who was in that sealing session was cryinging with me and said she could feel how joyful they were. So grateful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Thank you Elder and Sister Holland and family. I could feel the love you all share as family and the love you have for our Heavenly Father. This video touched my heart in many ways. I've never been to Utah and it opened my eyes to how beautiful it is there. The whole video was put together beautifully and the messages in it are so important to us all. Thank You !!!

This is so beautiful ❤️. I love that these great people were here in my town, if only I could have seen them. I'm sad to see them so frail.

This was a beautiful inspiring video! Definitely made me tear up through the hole video. I love Elder & sister Holland . I never had parents growing up & I definitely never had this sort of love and guidance, I am surprised I have survived without falling into drugs & etc. I love how the gospel has been giving me that love & guidance now in my life through the church & members of my own ward and now through my adopted family.

I love the singing at the end, what a connection that was around the world.

This is so sweet.

Thank you for this! What a wonderful insight to the Holland family. Hod Bless you all.

This video just touched my heart in so many ways.

Deeply personal, spiritual, moving, and uplifting. Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful family! Thank you for your sweet family and spirit!♥️

Wonderful! Just wonderful!

RIP Sister Holland 🙏

She is beautiful 🤩 ❤❤

What a moving, and very enjoyable video♥👍 Thank you Elder Holland, and Sister Holland your memories are so precious! Thank you, also to this channel for sharing. Appreciated!🌹🤗 May the Lord bless you, and keep you. 🙏 Moira From England.

Very touching. Thank you.

This is an awesome video! I did discover something...I discovered that Sister Holland and I have the same birthday (different years). I also believe we have a common ancestor in Thomas Searles Terry. He is my great great grandfather.

Very touching and inspiring video. It inspired me to work out again my family history and to strengthen my family ties and with friends and everyone as one, big eternal family of God! Thanks Holland Family for your wonderful example to all of us.🙏 Greetings from Norway. 🇳🇴

Love this so much!!!

Oh my goodness! I love this! I don’t have ancestral pictures any where in my home.., I’m doing that this week 😃

Beautiful. Thank you

How beautiful. Thank you for sharing ❤️

I love this, thankyou.

I loved this so much! Thank you!♥️

Oh Elder Holland, my brother and sister Thomas and Kathleen Conger used to ride the school bus with you!

This is a great video family history is very important

Beautiful message

Love this, love you.

Wonderful video. It would be nice to see the roots of all the quorum of the twelve.

I really did wonder of these things, if we would know our families!?

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I'm not sure the Church would be okay with you posting their copyrighted material on your own channel.

I love you guys but dont stop me from my primary purpose here on earth ...to build the city of the new Jerusalem...time is essential... jose ...im the light of this world .in the name of jesus amen.

These are really nice people but a house in Utah plus a summer house. As an apostle should he set an example by selling all he has and giving it to the poor?

Holland should scriptural reference his teachings. Some of what he teaches is not in harmony with the Standard Works of the Church.

I love Elder and Sister Holland! You have made a difference in my life and all those who will take the time to learn and listen will be uplifted by their words and testimony. We will miss Sister Holland! Thank you for your tremendous examples!