The ministering of angels can occur in different forms. Sometimes we feel as if someone we love who has passed on is present or is guiding us in certain situations. This is the ministering of angels. I have heard of people who are searching for names in their family history work and who feel as though they are being guided in the right direction by their loved ones from beyond the veil. I also know that there are times in the temple that we feel as thought the ones we are doing the work for are present. President James E. Faust in a talk titled, "A Royal Priesthood" said, "I would like to say a word about the ministering of angels. In ancient and modern times angels have appeared and given instruction, warnings, and direction, which benefited the people they visited. We do not consciously realize the extent to which ministering angels affect our lives. President Joseph F. Smith said, “In like manner our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges, may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, bringing from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, or reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.” Many of us feel that we have had this experience. Their ministry has been and is an important part of the gospel. Angels ministered to Joseph Smith as he reestablished the gospel in its fulness."
I also think that if we live worthily that we can be ministering angels here on earth for others who are in need. We can be the Lord's instruments here on earth and be the answer to someone else's prayers. I know that I have had times in my life when I've been having a trial and someone seems to show up at just the right time and place to fulfill a need that I had. I know that if we live worthy of the Holy Ghost and then act on the promptings that we feel, then we can be someone's ministering angel.
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