"Come to the Temple"

Sisters,

This week we all had the opportunity to spend time with our Relief Society sisters in the Dallas Temple.

Our Lorenzo Snow lesson this week, #10 "Come to the Temple", is an invitation from a prophet of God to attend the temple. The gospel of Jesus Christ and all of its saving ordinances flow through the temple. The prophet Joseph Smith, with whom President Lorenzo Snow was intimately associated, knew how important the founding, building and completion of temples was, in which the ordinances "hid from before the foundation of the world" might be given.

Lorenzo Snow was associated with the Kirtland, Nauvoo and Salt Lake temples and was called to be the first president of the Salt Lake temple. On Sunday, let's discuss the blessings of the temple, and how it binds the families of the earth.

President Gordon B. Hinckley said that all the answers we need today about our earth life are not found in the wisdom of men, they are found in the revealed word in the temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sisters of the Dallas Fourth Ward Relief Society, we have one of these temples within our ward boundaries -- how blessed are we?

Karen Bateman