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"If you could tell me 5 reasons to consider this convert to Mormon, what would they be?"
A great lady I was teaching on Facebook yesterday asked me this question. It was the best question I've been asked in the last week. Thrilled to answer, I gave the following items
Makes it so your family can be sealed in the temple to be together for ever.
You get extra guidance from the Holy Ghost to give you warnings and directions when you're lost.
Guidance from Christ through modern prophets to help you make sure you're living so you can have the holy ghost, and also be warned of worldwide problems.
Richer understanding of why Christ's sacrifice is so important and how it Adam's fall help us become like our Father in heaven.
Having a church family to support and help your own family.
She topped my answers by giving me a good one of her own.
"I love that this religion believes babies are born pure and if they passed before baptism, they would still enter heaven."
If you were asked for five reasons to become a Mormon and be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, what would they be? What should mine be? Don't be afraid to comment if you've only got one idea or a question about mine.
This morning after studying in Ezra which was a great example of how important temples should be to us. The Book of Ezra in the Old Testament accounts how the Jews returned to their homeland to rebuild the temple to the Lord that had previously been destroyed.
And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy, [Ezra 6:16]
In response, I felt like displaying how important the temple is to me and my family in some way on my blog to celebrate a bit. I admit, going there myself and walking the grounds or serving inside is a better way to show my gratitude for the temple, but I won't be able to go to see the temple at least until Sunday afternoon. I looked online for a picture of one of my favorite temples and found a great blog with a ton of temple blog badges ready made to put on a blog. I know it's called "One Cute Blog Blinkies" and that a lot of the badges are just too cutesy for me, but I still found some that were sufficiently manly. :D
The Washington DC temple has always stood out to me as one of the most beautiful. I chose it to show on my blog today, and also found a great badge with a quote by President Gordon B Hinckley about books. See if there's a badge you'd like, especially about the temple.
After being closed for several weeks because of the holidays, the temple reopened this week. On Thursday mornings I volunteer with my mission in the temple to help make the temple a reverent place where people there can worship. We assist people through a ceremony that outlines for them God's plan for our happiness and the means by which we can return to him. Today we were able to do that again, and I loved it so much that we're probably visiting again tomorrow morning.
With the Christmas season well over now, it's wonderful to have the temple as a reminder of Christ to keep the Christmas spirit going. I really do feel close to God in His temple. I wonder, if it feels that good to visit the temple after it was closed for several weeks, it must be so much more of a difference between a world where there was no temple to our God after the temple in Jerusalem and now when God has enabled His people to build a temple again.
