Angels are Among Us Andrew C. Skinner

 "From a great many witnesses we learn that the spirits of the righteous have a genuine interest in the progress and welfare of those in mortality.  It seems to me that these ministering angels and spirits are as likely as not to be members of one's own family or one's circle of friends in mortality.  They aid us in our missionary work as well as our family history research and temple work.  They know us and know best how to help us.  Their experiences and activities are very much like our own activities on this side of the veil.  They yearn to be reunited with their family and friends.  The same sociality which exists among us here on this side of the veil exists among them on that side of the veil (D&C 130:2).  Beings in the spirit world may even pray for the health and happiness of us mortals.  

The experience of one of my own family members taught her that those on the other side of the veil can and do pray for us on this side and that she herself was prayed for at a difficult time in her life by family members who had gone before her.  She learned this by personal revelation.  In her history she tells of the death of her nineteen-year-old daughter and of being "frantic with grief" She was nearly devasted.  She had already lost another child years earlier.  In that moment of her extremity, a vision opened to her. She saw departed loved ones on the other side of the veil praying for her.  Just as important, her personal record of this and other experiences has taught her descendants valuable lessons about life beyond the veil.  As the Prophet Joseph Smith said, the spirit world in very near.

It is also true that inhabitants of the spirit world are themselves, in turn, ministered to by servants of God. "Angels [meaning resurrected beings in this case] are ministers both to men upon the earth and to the world of spirits.  They pass from one world to another with more ease and in less time than we pass from one city to another." (Pratt, Key to the Science of Theology,  69). All of this is according to our Heavenly Father's watchful care over his children on both sides of the veil and is mad possible by the very atoning act that had brought Jesus to the spirit world."  Andrew C. Skinner , (The Garden Tomb, 52-52)