A Worthwhile Pursuit
LDS Living Podcasts
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5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Stories in this episode: Vai Sikahema was a small boy in Tonga when his family sold everything they had to go to the temple in New Zealand to be sealed. Decades later, that experience helps him be the right person at the right time in a meeting that could very well decide the fate of another temple; When Keala Sikahema decides to put the temple at the center of her family life, she sees its power emanating in ways she didn't expect.
SHOW NOTES
Hi friends! This is the last episode for season one of This Is the Gospel, but don't worry! You can still follow us on Instagram and Facebook until season two begins in September 2019.
LDS Living Video about the Sikahemas and the Philly Temple: Temple Blessings from Tonga to Philadelphia
President Howard W. Hunter's message "A Temple-Motivated People"
Click here to view the ChurchofJesusChrist.org's temple landing page.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends, I wanted to jump in really quickly before this episode begins to give you some |
| 0:04.0 | sad news and some happy news. I'll start with the sad news. This is going to be the last episode |
| 0:09.2 | of this is the gospel for season one. We're going to take a quick break over the summer so that we |
| 0:13.4 | can compile more stories and get them ready to tell. And here's the good news. We made season one |
| 0:20.2 | of a podcast. We did it. Can you believe that? That's we're celebrating. And don't worry, we're |
| 0:25.5 | going to be back in September with season two with more great stories about the gospel that |
| 0:30.5 | will touch you and make you laugh. And in the meantime, if you want to know what we're up to, |
| 0:34.8 | including bonus episodes behind the scenes of season two and upcoming story themes for the |
| 0:39.4 | pitch line, be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook at this is the gospel underscore podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | We'll have a link to those in our show notes. And if you're catching up on past episodes, |
| 0:49.7 | make sure you tell us in the review section of iTunes, which episodes you loved and what you loved |
| 0:53.7 | about them, things you wish you could see more of. That will help us as we try to plan more great |
| 0:58.8 | stories for season two. Now on with the show. Welcome to this is the gospel and LDS living podcast where |
| 1:12.0 | we feature real stories from real people who are practicing and living their faith every day. |
| 1:16.9 | I'm your host, Corinne Lay. So this is fun. I'm a bit of a dictionary nerd and I recently looked |
| 1:23.4 | up the word temple in the online Marium Webster dictionary. Here's how they define it. |
| 1:28.3 | A building of religious practice such as A, two successive national sanctuaries in ancient Jerusalem, |
| 1:34.6 | B, a building for Mormon sacred ordinances, and C, the house of worship of reform and some conservative |
| 1:41.3 | Jewish congregations. So clearly good old Marium and Webster haven't gotten the memo from |
| 1:46.4 | President Nelson about our name yet. But how cool is it that we're helping to define the category? |
| 1:52.1 | Since that first temple in Kurtland, Ohio in 1836, I think we really have been, as President |
| 1:57.9 | Hunter said, a temple motivated people. There currently, as of the day we hit publish on this |
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