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Painting the Other Side of the Veil | The Ancestors Who Led Me Back to the Temple

THINNING OF THE VEIL

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Can our ancestors help us from the other side of the veil, even after we've stepped away from the Church? In this Latter-day Saint (LDS) episode, Tia Smith visits artist and art therapist Heather Lewis in her studio across the street from the Provo City Temple. Heather tells how she quietly stopped participating after years of leaning on others' testimonies, and how her son's service mission, a patient bishop, and visits from her own family beyond the veil softened her heart and brought her back to the temple.

Heather shares the experience behind one of her paintings. At her lowest point, sitting on a mountain trail, her two grandfathers came to her, gave her a blessing, and told her she could not learn about the temple from outside it. She needed to go back. She also describes returning to the temple and finding the same family she had done endowments for years earlier waiting for her to finish their work, and a name that kept coming to her for days, which she first thought meant she should move to Laramie, Wyoming, until she realized it was an ancestor waiting for his baptism.

Heather has turned twelve of these thinning of the veil experiences into an art show, with a QR code on each piece so you can listen to the story as you look. Tia and Heather talk about why every testimony of the gathering of Israel matters, whether it comes through a podcast, a song, a poem, or a painting, and how ancestors serve as ministering angels to those who help them.

To ask about visiting Heather's show: [PASTE HEATHER'S CONTACT LINK]

Q: Do ancestors help us from the other side of the veil if we're not active in the Church?
A: Heather Lewis testifies that the Spirit never left her while she was away, and that ancestors and friends beyond the veil ministered to her patiently and comforted her. Her grandfathers appeared to her on a mountain trail and encouraged her to return to the temple.

Q: How do I know if a name that keeps coming to me is an ancestor needing temple work?
A: Heather prayed for names and then looked them up in the FamilySearch app. In one case a name repeated in her mind for days. When she looked him up, he was a relative who needed his ordinances, and she took him to the temple with her son.

Q: How can I share my testimony of the gathering of Israel if I'm not a speaker or writer?
A: Tia and Heather teach that every gift can testify of the gathering, including art, music, and poetry. Heather began painting her spiritual experiences instead of writing them, and the details came back to her as she prayed and painted.

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14 Comments

@jandyson9030 20 hours ago

I had an experience similar to Heathers... Where my deceased dad and Grandpa (who I never met, because he died before I was born) came to me, during a really difficult time in my life. I was in the temple (celestial room), praying, when I distinctly felt a spirit(s) stand in front of me. I kept my eyes closed and waited, then finally asked who was here with me. My deceased dad said "it's dad..and I'm with my dad". I immediately knew they were there to give me a blessing of comfort. I didn't feel hands on my head, but was given 3 distinct messages (and wrote them down as soon as I got home!) and was filled with peace and calm--that lasted for days! Our family and ancestors are close by and ready to minister and help!!💙

@KathleenSakauchi 18 hours ago

I love this podcast Soo much. Thank you.

@gburt3892 18 hours ago

My son was doing his own endowment in prep for his mission, so I took my grandpa’s name. He had been baptized, but wasn’t really active his whole life. When my son came through into the celestial room, he said he saw me and thought he was looking at his great grandpa. He said there was a distinct glow around me. It was a tender mercy for my newly endowed son.

@tbhughesth 18 hours ago (edited)

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences!!! I’m so happy for you!!!❤❤❤ Thank you Tia for having Heather on your show!!!! It really strengthens my testimony in so many ways!! Love your paintings!!!

@tdm2298 20 hours ago

Thank you, Tia and Heather for your testimonies and for taking the time to share and uplift others. God bless you both in all your endeavors.

@947dove 1 day ago

I am in therapy recovering from childhood trauma and self-worth issues. My therapist has mentioned the rewiring of the brain so that I can learn to feel safe and valuable. Your discussion of how sharing temple experiences and having them confirmed can rewire our brains struck me deeply. As a matter of fact, I cried. I have been struggling medically, financially, and circumstantially to follow President Nelson's counsel to attend the temple as often as possible. My temple is a 5 hour drive away. Now I see that it is not just about serving, learning, and gathering. For me, it is also about healing.

@emilymvance 20 hours ago

Feeling “good” is a start of the testimony….

@lauramacgregor9057 19 hours ago (edited)

Thank you!! I love you both!! While watching, I felt confirmation and tender love from the other side of the veil, of these truths and of my own Spiritual experiences, which I have been blessed to have, through out all my life! Heavenly Father is so good, and so in love with us!! His beloved Children, and through His Son Jesus Christ, we are made whole, and there in His Holy House, the Temple, we can become aware, and understand these truths! Praise the Lord!! In Jesus name, Amen!

@emilymvance 20 hours ago

Beautiful

@susan2700 11 hours ago

Thank you Tia and Heather for doing this episode. I have felt that I needed to do a water color of a particular revelatory dream I had 11 years ago, but I am not a trained artist and wasn't sure how to get started. You have given me the courage and kick in the pants I needed to move forward with it anyway. I realize now it doesn't have to be a Rembrandt, it just needs to come from my heart. Thank you for the reminder to pray before I begin. I hope painting it will help me figure out the meaning of some of the parts that are still obscure to me. Thank you so much!

@emilymvance 20 hours ago

Thankyou

@emilymvance 18 hours ago

Sweet

@georgekeeney3256 23 hours ago

🙏

@AjCorb-888 16 hours ago

I love this. I feel compelled to deny that I have any gifts at all.
I know it's wrong but I have been the bane of everyone's existence.
That feels like it's my truth.
But I know that I am somehow a precious daughter of Heavenly Parents & that my Savior is the only one who has never thought less of me & has never left my side.
I've learned lessons in & out of the temple & feel like it's the only place on Earth that I can't screw up. (Church & even family can stink because I talk & say the wrong thing).
I just want to be at the temple all day every day but it's 2 hours away & I'm living on disability.
That being said, how grateful I am for this Gospel! I'm thankful for internet conference & new scripture coming forth soon & I thank God for family & temple.
Now, since I'm a rube living in the diaspora (near Spokane but I dislike mushrooms), maybe you could put your show online....someday? I would love to experience it & it sounds perfect for an interactive online experience!
Anyways, I love you both. I'm coming up on the one year anniversary of the death of my only child. She was beautiful. And she is missed. And I really hate halloween.
I will be glad when this ugly holiday & 1st anniversary are in the past.
Jesus is coming & I pray I can help "save" as many people as possible so they can come in that great cloud of Glory upon Christ's triumphant return.
Thanks for all you do & especially for being who you are. 🙏🏼❤😇🕊