"They Cannot Be Lost: Temple Covenants Save Families" Chapter 16
President Monson shares a beautiful story about how the temples of the Lord have pulled families together.
Elder Nelson teaches us more about covenants!
These are great FHE lesson videos that can help children learn more about the temple and what making a covenant means, and how it will affect them after receiving their own endowment.
Definitely share this Mormon message with your family as well!
Help the youth build confidence in the temple, and help them better understand that the temple is beautiful and sacred blessing that the Lord has provided for us. Help the youth focus on more than the wedding or the mission call, and truly understand the meaning behind temple attendance and what we can gain from visiting often.
Before I entered the temple for the very first time, I had no idea what to expect. I was confident that it was where the Lord wanted me to be though. At times, I feel like we stress marriage to the youth more than entering the temple for the first time. We should hold more family home evenings on temples and have regular conversations about temples within our homes with our families. Parents should work to set an example of regular temple attendance to show the children how truly important it is for a marriage relationship as well!
These are some of my all-time favorite quotes about the temple!
"The temple provides purpose for our lives. It brings peace to our souls—not the peace provided by men but the peace promised by the Son of God when He said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.”" President Thomas S. Monson
"I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure one and regard it as a precious asset, and to make a greater effort to go to the House of the Lord and partake of the spirit and the blessings to be had therein." -President Gordon B. Hinckley
"I urge all who have not yet received these greatest of all blessings within the walls of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them." -James E. Faust
"As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground." -Joseph B. Wirthlin
"Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine functions—come through obedience and faithfulness to priesthood authority and covenants made." -James E. Faust
"Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families." -Russell M. Nelson
"Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God." -Doctrine and Covenants 88:119
"Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father." -Brigham Young
Hopefully these will help you get thinking more and more about the temple, and visit it some time soon, or even commit to become prepared to enter!
Love,
Leah
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