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Another e-mail? I am flooded with e-mails. So thank you for helping me out with a good one.

Thanks, Steuss. How do you hear about these things?

jadams, please don't get your hopes up too high. I was proxy for the endowment for both of my grandmothers. One grandmother I knew, one had died before I was even born. I loved my grandmother that I knew, and she was a wonderful person. But when I was the proxy for her, I didn't feel anything special. But then when I was the proxy for my grandmother who had died before I was born, the experience was almost overwhelming. I t hink it does depend on if the person is ready right then to recieve the ordinance you are performing for them. There will be very special experiences in the temple. We just can't tell when they are going to happen. But going to the temple is always a time for quiet reflection and for loving the Savior and our Heavenly Parents.

If you live in an area where a new temple is being built, before it is dedicated and thereafter for members in good standing only, there will be an open house with tours.

WE have quarterly enrichment activities, but we have many, many enrichment groups going on that meet every month, and some even oftener. We have group that goes hiking, one that does freezer meals, one that does a greeting card swap, we have quilting (that's my group), scrapbooking, weight loss, computer skills, a writer's group (my other group), a toddler's play group, clutter busters, a gardening group, ladies at lunch group, dinner and a movie group, and probalby some I don't know about. If two sisters have a common interest, they can make a group. We are going to have a Girls Night Out. At the stake center, in the gym, 6-midnight. We are going to do speed visiting, plus a bunch of personal care things, making sachets, manicures, facials, color analysis, chair massage, and just plain old hanging out.

But it does get confusing when you tell a non-member or investigator you had a meeting at the "stake house" and they think "steakhouse!"

Siousie, often times people help out different elders, usually anonymously. When a young man is being called on a mission, and people know that the family would find it a real stretch to support him, ward members can tell the bishop they would be able to donate a specific amount, and the family would never know who had. 50 years ago, my husband's extended family help support him on his mission. We have helped others along the way since then.

I didn't notice the e-mail address, sorry. I will post there. Please give us your results when you get them, so maybe we can use it for an activity. Thanks.

Is that being saved IN our sins?

For young men who are already members, deacons are ordained at age 12, teachers at age 14, and then priests at age 16. Usually young men are ordained as elders right before they are called on missions, so usually about age 19. avatar is right about men who join the Church as adults.

Deborah, I, too have been shown the Father's love and care in very small, but signifcant events, too. I think the OP is correct. We do tend to overgeneralize. And many people do go through challenges to their testimonies because of this.

I think we will do all the good things we did here, but just not the bad things. We will eat, but not overeat, we will have sex, but not for any lustful reason, we women will have babies, but without all the unpleasant stuff, we will get to be parents to babies without the spit up, and toddlers without the tantrums, and teenagers without cars. What bliss.

I think our bodies look like our spirits. More or less. I think some of the mortality, imperfectness, has some impact. But I think when we have progressed to where we are perfect, our attitudes will be perfect too, and we will think all are beautiful, and it won't be because of straight teeth, or nice noses, or big eyes, or whatever.

I was 19 years old and a sophomore in college. I had heard of Brigham Young, but not Joseph Smith. I was led to the Church and knew the minute I walked in the doors that was where God wanted me to be. I took the missionary discussions and was baptized a month later. And that is 46 years ago. (I'm old.) I have been a devout member ever since.