Temples

So today was our ward primary program and I thought this quote was so neat, “Every Temple … lessens the power of Satan on the earth, and increases the power of God and Godliness, moves the heavens in mighty power in our behalf, invokes and calls down upon us the blessings of the Eternal Gods” (Millennial Star, Nov. 12, 1877, 743). He said this when there was only one operating temple on the earth at the time. As this quote was being read the primary children would randomly hold up pictures of the temples throughout the world. It was really incredible and the Spirit bore such powerful testimony of its truth.

Temples are amazing!!! I remember when I was in college before I received my own endownment that I was making an effort to go to the St. George temple regularly and do baptisms for the dead, but I sometimes felt it wasn't enough and that I wished that I could be doing more...then one day a sister in my ward stood up and bore her testimony about temples...she had received her endownments and she basically said it doesn't matter what you do in the temple as long as you go. The same Spirit is felt throughout the whole temple. That helped me so much.

One thing that I love about the temple (especially the endownment session) is that Satan is cast from our lives...at least for a moment. So no wonder that quote rings so true...every temple built means that more people are able to regularly cast Satan out of their lives for a moment and reflect on the things of God. How grateful I am that I live close to so many temples and am lucky enough to attend regularly!!!