We went to the temple today. The goal is to go more this year than we did last year. I really do love this place and I get somethings out of it every time. Today I listened for something that I wanted to work on this week. We are promised blessings in the temple, but I figure that I don't have a reason to not try harder to earn them.
What goes on in this temple and temples throughout the world is beautiful and sacred. To me, the work tells me that Heavenly Father loves all his children and we will all have a chance to hear the gospel and have the ordinances preformed for us.
These are a few quotes about the temple:
"In the ordinances of the temple, the foundations of the eternal family are sealed in place." Howard W Hunter
"As the prophets have said, the temple is a place of beauty; it is a place of revelation; it is a place of peace. It is the house of the Lord. It is holy unto the Lord. It must be holy and important to us.” Howard W Hunter
"Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people." Howard W. Hunter
"No work is more of a protection to this church than temple work and the genealogical research that supports it. No work is more spiritually refining. No work we do gives us more power. No work requires a higher standard of righteousness." Boyd K Packer
"Within the hallowed walls of the temples, there is no preference of position, wealth, status, race, or education. All dress in white. All receive the same instruction. All make the same covenants and promises. All receive the same transcendent, eternal blessings if they live worthy to claim them. All are equal before their Creator. Those who are single through no fault of their own, if worthy, will be given the blessings, if they wish, of an eternal family relationship." James E Faust
"A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on high—a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilities with greater intelligence and increased effectiveness in order to bring to pass our Heavenly Father’s purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love." David B Haight
"The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant—the heart of the plan of salvation—is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house." Russell M Nelson
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