The Dead know nothing

It was kind of ironic how things happened this week. We knocked a door of an Adventist and started talking with her and we were talking about Baptisms for the dead. Her dad interrupted and started bashing on us about the Sabbath day and what not, but his daughter was still asking lots of questions about the Dead. She kept asking us why we do it if the dead don´t know anything, as mentioned in Ecclesiastes in the old Testament. I didn't know how to respond to her in that moment.

The ironic thing is that we helped one of the Sisters in the branch afterward when she was putting a headstone on the grave of her husband. While we were there in the cemetery it was just amazing to me that if the Dead know nothing, why do we go through so much trouble to make a good resting place for them, to bless and dedicate it, etc? It was a great testimony builder that there is a life after this one and that our loved ones that have passed away are not so far away from us.

Keep reading the scriptures, the answers are there. If you´re not sure of something, ask Heavenly father. He Knows. :)

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