212: How to Prepare for the Temple and Why We Go with Grant Foster
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
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17 years ago, I went to the Bountiful Temple for the first time to receive my own endowment (which is another word for gift). This ordinance or sacred work is something members of my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often do once they reach adulthood or are preparing to serve as a full-time missionary or before they're married in our temple. I had an exceptional experience preparing to go to the temple. At the time, in Huntington Beach where I was living and attending church weekly, I not only completed the temple prep class that many members take, even to this day, to prepare for temple worship. But I also took a 3 hour temple orientation class at a man's home whose name I still don't know to this day, but that preparation changed my entire experience. He shared with me scripture after scripture of evidences that God has and always will work in patterns, and that what I was about to experience in the temple was exactly the same kind of thing God has been doing to teach men and women since the beginning of time. For years following this experience, I've talked with my dad about how impactful this training was, and we've had many discussions about how incredible the scripture and gospel teachings were that I learned that day in conjunction with the temple. My dad has served in many church leadership callings including multiple bishoprics, as a member of the Mission Presidency for the Spain Barcelona mission from January 2020 - July 2021, and now serving as a bishop of a young single adult ward in North Salt Lake. So finally after many years of wanting to put something together that could be shared with others who are also preparing to enter the temple, we recorded this episode sharing these scriptural teachings. I hope that even if you are not a member of our church or aren't necessarily attending the temple right away, that this episode helps give you context as to what we do inside our temples and why they're so very important to us, and my personal favorite place on earth.
Current and upcoming temple open house events https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples/open-houses?lang=eng
What goes on inside of temples; covenants, clothing, ordinances, and what it looks like inside.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/temples?lang=eng
"What Are the Five Covenants Made in the Temple Endowment?" LDS Living article
LDSliving.com/endowmentcovenants
Example Patterns in Scriptures of Temple Symbolism, Rituals, and Instruction
Tabernacle (Exodus 40):
Mt Sinai:
Gethsemane (Matt 26:36-46):
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| 0:00.0 | 17 years ago, I went to the Bountiful Temple for the first time to receive my own endowment, |
| 0:05.2 | which is another word for gift. This ordinance or sacred work is something members of my church, |
| 0:10.4 | the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often do once they reach adulthood or are preparing |
| 0:15.5 | to serve as a full-time missionary or before they're married in our temple. I had an exceptional experience preparing to go to |
| 0:22.4 | the temple. At the time in the Huntington Beach area where I was living and attending church |
| 0:27.4 | weekly, I not only completed the temple prep classes that many members take, even to this day, |
| 0:32.6 | to prepare for temple worship, but I also took a three-hour temple orientation class at a man's home whose |
| 0:39.3 | name I still don't know to this day, but that preparation changed my entire experience. |
| 0:45.3 | He shared with me scripture after scripture of evidence that God has and always will work with |
| 0:50.7 | us in patterns and that what I was about to experience in the temple was exactly |
| 0:55.7 | the same kind of thing God has been doing to teach men and women since the beginning of time. |
| 1:00.5 | For years following this experience, I've talked with my dad about how impactful this training |
| 1:04.5 | was, and we've had many discussions about how incredible the scripture and gospel teachings |
| 1:09.0 | were that I learned that day in conjunction |
| 1:11.5 | with the temple. My dad has served in many church leadership callings, including multiple bishoprics, |
| 1:17.2 | as a member of the mission presidency for the Spain-Barsalona mission from January 2020 to July |
| 1:22.1 | 2021, and now he's serving as a bishop of a young single adult ward in North Salt Lake. |
| 1:27.7 | So, finally, after many years of wanting to put something together that could be shared with |
| 1:32.3 | others who are also preparing to enter the temple, including people in his congregation, |
| 1:37.4 | we recorded this episode sharing these scriptural teachings. |
| 1:40.9 | I hope that even if you're not a member of our church or aren't necessarily attending |
| 1:44.6 | the temple right away, that this episode helps give you context as to what we do inside our temples |
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