The church shall move forward with the quickness of technology

Imagine you've been working on some genealogical research for the last six month or so, then while talking your cousin you mention your work and he informs you that he already did the exact same research a year ago. You just wasted six months, how do you feel? Any one who has done a reasonable amount of genealogical work has run into similar situations. The Lord has provided technologies that can overcome this particular problem as well as a myriad of others. I refer to the Lord because I believe that one of the major reasons for the technological advances we've seen is to facilitate the growth and maintenance of His church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). He has prepared leaders like President Hinckley who take advantage of modern technologies to continue and properly handle the exponential growth the church has seen. Membership has gown to nearly 13 million, temples now literally dot the earth, and there are over 50,000 missionaries in over 300 missions worldwide and all of which would be impossible to handle with a hard copies and filing cabinets system. If the growth of technology continues to keep up with the growth of the church it will be interesting to see what develops.