[Sealings]

And be careful if you're pregnant! (Kneeling for a long time can make you faint/pass out.)

 

I LOVE doing sealings! When I lived closer to a temple (and went more often), I learned to learn from the different sealers. Every once in a while, they'll share some insight, either about the ordinance or the particular temple you're in. 

[Sealing Children Born Out of Wedlock]

On 5/16/2017 at 1:09 AM, Just_A_Guy said:

Log into FamilySearch, then go to this address:  https://familysearch.org/ask/salesforce/viewArticle?urlname=Can-a-Couple-Be-Sealed-Who-Never-Married-or-Whose-Marriage-Date-I-Cannot-Find-1381812085539&lang=en_US

Short answer:  they may be sealed if they lived together as husband and wife, even if they were never formally married.

From the article: 

"Please note for couples that were never married, there must be evidence that the couple did live together as husband and wife even though there was no marriage or documentation of a marriage."

My original question pertains to children born of two persons who did NOT live together as husband and wife. Are they walled off from being linked to their forebearers, thereby having the same effect on their posterity?

[You're single because....]

I'm single because there are zero LDS guys within ten years and twenty miles of me.

At least, that's what I tell people who inquire into my dating life. I look at all that I've been able to do within the Church and my family because I'm single, and I find purpose to my singledom. One thing that keeps me patient is doing sealings. I often think about how long they've been waiting for their forever marriage (hint: longer than I have) and how, in a way, I can give them even more than I have. Seriously, how cool is that?

Side note: I had a roommate refer to me as a "gateway date" because so many of the guys who took me on a date married the next girl they dated. 

[Sealing Children Born Out of Wedlock]

1 hour ago, JohnsonJones said:

It's a situation that has changed in recent years from what I understand.

Originally, a woman was sealed to the man that she married.  If she married more than once, it was the first husband.  In this situation, the children would go with the father and whoever he was sealed to.

Now, they do it differently.

If I understand it correctly.

Woman can be sealed to multiple men.  In this instance, in order for the children to be sealed to their mother, their mother would be sealed to the father (even if they were never married, or divorced).  The idea now days is to seal everyone together and let the Lord sort it out later.  A LOT more work for those in the millennium.

This has created a rift in our family to a small degree.  An ancestor of mine (close actually) stated that they were NEVER to be sealed to her first husband.  He was abusive (in multiple ways) and she divorced him.  She married again to the individual she wished to be sealed to.  She stated that under no condition whatsoever was she to EVER be sealed to her first husband.

Guess what...

The church sealed her to the first husband (actually, to both husbands).  I suppose part of that is on my family's side of blame.  We put her and that husband together on ancestory/family tree so that the children could also be shown.  The course the church took from there (and it may be another family member did more than I did in that regard and took an active role, not sure on that part) was to seal her to the husband.  Not such good feelings at that course of action in some of the family.

So, even if a couple are not married, these days, they will seal them together (this is only done after death).  The idea is that this will all be sorted out later.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to look into it again.

[Hey, yo!]

This is often how I greet people.

I use the same username just about everywhere, so if "seashmore" looks familiar, it's probably me. 2nd generation LDS, but we usually left church at the chapel, and my mother recently questioned whether she ever even had a testimony of her own. Never married (so I'm lonely and like to talk about myself), unconventional family, all Midwest. At 29, I eased out of the YSA wards by moving to a place without any. I've graduated Institute at least twice, but still have to sing the song to find anything except a Nephi in the Book of Mormon. My calling highlights include: 1st Counselor in RS and YW (separately, of course), Primary Music Leader, Gospel Doctrine teacher, temple worker (I consider my 18 months served to be a mission equivalent), and RS Secretary (4 times in 3 wards, and I've only lived in one ward that didn't call me, probably because I joked about having already done it twice in three years; I'm either really good at it, or I haven't learned anything yet).

I look forward to swapping stories with you.

[Sealing Children Born Out of Wedlock]

Anyone know the sealing guidelines for children born to unwed parents? I can't be the only person out there to have encountered this in my family history. 

Don't parents have to be sealed to each other before having children sealed to them? And, generally speaking, what was not bound on earth cannot be bound in heaven, right? So what happens if Tommy's parents never married on earth? 

I once presented this scenario to a temple matron, and got a "I hadn't thought of that" look/response, and someone else got a "God will sort it out somehow" answer from their bishop, so I'm not necessarily expecting an answer. But, yes, it's kept me up a night or two.