ARE WE AND OUR NAMES TEMPLE READY?

In Relief Society we have divided the year into 4 areas of focus, plus an ongoing look at family emergency preparedness. We just focused on service the first quarter, through a spotlight on visiting teaching and “many hands make light work,” with an opportunity to not only serve each other, but our community.


This quarter we will focus on the Temple: "Temple Ready? Heaven Ready?" We just had a lesson on indexing and preparing names the temple by Sister Alford. This Sunday we will have a lesson on Temple Worship by Sister Grant. We will have an opportunity to take an Indexing Class, and a class on making your "Life Timeline"--a scaffolding tool for your Life History.


We will have A DAY AT THE TEMPLE – TUESDAY, JUNE 26, with special endowment and initiatory sessions, together as sisters. We have at least two sisters going through the temple for the first time, with an opportunity to go and support them. We have been given a new Ward Temple Day, the second Friday of the month with two sessions at 4 and 7 p.m. to hopefully aid attendance.


When I was a little girl about 9 years old, my father was Bishop of the Ward. One day I was riding in the car with him, and he said,”you know some people use the Church like a cafeteria or buffet dinner, picking and choosing what they will partake of, and what they will pass up. I want you to get a testimony of Jesus Christ, and partake of the whole buffet that the gospel offers to get you back to your Heavenly Father with your family.”


So many times, I have remembered that analogy by Dad and have surely seen the truth of it. Certainly, when we speak of the banquet that is ours in the Gospel of Jesus Christ –the temple is the dessert table. In the temple, Brother Boyd K Packer teaches, we are taught the “mysteries of godliness” and President Brigham Young said that in the temple we are “taught the signs and tokens that we will need to pass the angels, who stand as sentinels into the Celestial Kingdom.”


How sad if we go to the buffet table of the Lord, and do not see and partake of the magnificent array of desserts that the Lord has set for us in His Temples. Write the date Tuesday June 26th on your calendar! Do we have names Temple Ready? Are we Temple Ready? Are we Heaven Ready?