June 11th Relief Society Day at the Temple

Dear Sisters,
I have come upon some wonderful quotes from the Brethren regarding the temple in an effort to inspire you to join us on June 11th for our RS Day at the Temple.

"If we are a temple-going people, we will be a better people, we will be better fathers and husbands; we will be better wives and mothers. I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the House of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you. Now, please, please, my beloved brethren and sisters, avail yourselves of the great opportunity to go to the Lord's House and thereby partake of all the marvelous blessings that are yours to be received there."  - President Gordon B. Hinckley

Elder John A Widtsoe said that any of us "can solve his problems better and more quickly in the House of the Lord than anywhere else."

"When within the sacred walls of these buildings, where you are entitled to the Spirit of the Lord, in the silent moments the answers will come."  - Elder Melvin J. Ballard

Faithful temple service offers one of the best opportunities there is to serve our fellow men and women in this life and to serve those who have gone beyond the veil. We are blessed beyond measure to be able to serve in the place that offers the ultimate protection from the storms of life. Thus the temple is a fortress and there we withdraw from the world in order to return to the struggles armed with the power to better deal with what the prophet Joseph Smith called the "vicissitudes of life."

Love,
Debra Newcum