I am going to the Provo temple on Saturday, April 23, 2011 to receive my endowments. I am so excited about this! I can't wait! I have such a strong personal testimony that temples are the sacred and holy houses of God on earth. There we participate in sacred ordinances, make covenants, and are sealed as families for eternity. I know that the work we do there and the covenants we make there are crucial for us to return to live with God again. It is part of God's plan for us, and the greatest part is that the plan is for EVERYONE. This is why we also perform all the temple ordinances for our dead, and why we are so eager to share the gospel and invite people to come unto Christ and join his church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....so that every person who ever lives on this earth has the opportunity to participate in the blessings of the temple if they so choose. Elder John A. Widtsoe said:
"There is no place for forgetting the other man, in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. There stands my brother. It was for him that the whole plan was made, for him the Church was organized, for him all these blessings were given - not for me alone. Oh, I stand there too. The Church was made for me...but my brother is entitled to them just as much as I am. He and I together and all of us must unitedly work together to fulfill the greater purposes of the Almighty Father." -The Holy Temple (shown below), page 216
Many of my friends do not know very much about LDS temples, and so for any of you who want to know more about why I am going to the temple and what I will do there, you can read this pamphlet:http://lds.org/manual/preparing-to-enter-the-holy-temple/preparing-to-enter-the-holy-temple?lang=eng , which is a very short summary of the book "The Holy Temple" by Boyd K. Packer. I have read both in preparation for Saturday, and they are both great!
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