myway Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Hi, Are all new members required to attend the Temple and recieve the Endowment? Thanks Quote
john doe Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 No. In fact, you can't attend the temple until you have been a member for at least a year. Quote
applepansy Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Hi, Are all new members required to attend the Temple and recieve the Endowment?ThanksJust as you choose to be baptized or not, you can choose to be endowed or not. As with all covenants with the Lord we can choose. The Lord will never take your agency from you. Nor will church leaders "pressure" you into going to the temple. They will most likely "strongly encourage" but only because they would like for everyone to enjoy the same blessings and the spirit of the temple. Its important to learn "line upon line and precept on precept".I am grateful for the endowment. I'm grateful I live close to a temple and I volunteer there each week. There is not another place closer to heaven than an LDS Temple. It has been in the temple that the most proufound answers to prayers have been answered and sometimes its been the unspoken deisres fo my heart that have been answered while I've been in the temple..There is power in the Temple endowment and in Temple attendance. I would like to testify to that and add . . . I wouldn't want to live in today's world without the blessings of the temple.applepansy Quote
ElderBigDawg Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Isn't there more than one set of endowments? I know I have to get mine soon before going on my mission, but isn't there a set of endowments when you are sealed with your spouse in the temple? Quote
susieSA Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Isn't there more than one set of endowments? I know I have to get mine soon before going on my mission, but isn't there a set of endowments when you are sealed with your spouse in the temple?Nope....Just one Quote
MarginOfError Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Hi, Are all new members required to attend the Temple and recieve the Endowment?ThanksAsk your Ward leadership about taking a Temple Preparation class. In a Temple Prep class you'll be able to get much better answers than you will here. As an additional bonus, the Temple Prep class will (big surprise) prepare you in many ways to go to the Temple at a time that you are ready and comfortable doing so. Quote
abqfriend Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Hi, I am a Catholic--what is the Endowment?Thank you.-CarolHi, Are all new members required to attend the Temple and recieve the Endowment?Thanks Quote
happygirl_ut Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 "One ordinance received in the temple is called the endowment. The word endowment means "gift," and the temple endowment truly is a gift from God. The ordinance consists of a series of instructions and includes covenants to live righteously and follow the requirements of the gospel. The endowment focuses on the Savior, His role in Heavenly Father's plan, and the personal commitment of each member to follow Him. " -- From True to the Faith, 2004, pg 170-174 Quote
Maureen Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 Hi, I am a Catholic--what is the Endowment?Thank you.-CarolFrom lds.org:The EndowmentBefore a person can be married (or sealed as husband and wife) in the temple, he or she receives the ordinances of the endowment.What is the temple endowment?“Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell.” (Discourses of Brigham Young [Deseret Book Co., 1941], p. 416.)As you receive your endowment, you will be given instruction relative to the purposes and plans of the Lord in creating and peopling the earth and in exalting his children in the life to come.Elder James E. Talmage, formerly of the Council of the Twelve, has given a clear description of the endowment:“The Temple Endowment, as administered in modern temples, comprises instruction relating to the significance and sequence of past dispensations, and the importance of the present as the greatest and grandest era in human history. This course of instruction includes a recital of the most prominent events of the creative period, the condition of our first parents in the Garden of Eden, their disobedience and consequent expulsion from that blissful abode, their condition in the lone and dreary world when doomed to live by labor and sweat, the plan of redemption by which the great transgression may be atoned, the period of the great apostasy, the restoration of the Gospel with all its ancient powers and privileges, the absolute and indispensable condition of personal purity and devotion to the right in present life, and a strict compliance with Gospel requirements. …“The ordinances of the endowment embody certain obligations on the part of the individual, such as covenant and promise to observe the law of strict virtue and chastity, to be charitable, benevolent, tolerant and pure; to devote both talent and material means to the spread of truth and the uplifting of the race; to maintain devotion to the cause of truth; and to seek in every way to contribute to the great preparation that the earth may be made ready to receive her King,—the Lord Jesus Christ. With the taking of each covenant and the assuming of each obligation a promised blessing is pronounced, contingent upon the faithful observance of the conditions.“No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.” (The House of the Lord [Deseret Book Co., 1968], pp. 83–84.)To endow is to enrich, to give to another something long-lasting and of much worth. The endowment ordinances enrich in three ways:1. The one receiving the ordinance is given power from God. “Recipients are endowed with power from on High.” (President Bruce R. McConkie of the First Council of the Seventy.)2. A recipient is also endowed with information and knowledge. “They receive knowledge relative to the Lord’s purposes and plans. …” (President McConkie.)3. When sealed at the altar, a person is the recipient of glorious blessings, powers, and honors, as part of his endowment.The endowment is a most important and significant blessing, and the Lord desires his worthy children to receive it. You should all look forward to the day when you will receive your own endowment.ElRay L. Christiansen, “Some Things You Need to Know about the Temple,” New Era, Jun 1971, 25M. Quote
Moksha Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 · Hidden Hidden Hi, I am a Catholic--what is the Endowment?Thank you.-Carol It also involves a Temple ceremony. The nude clogging does not occur till later.
breezygirl Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 · Hidden Hidden It also involves a Temple ceremony. The nude clogging does not occur till later.Ok thanks alot I snorted apple juice out of my nose when I read that!
Palerider Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 · Hidden Hidden it also involves a temple ceremony. The nude clogging does not occur till later. lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mnn727 Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 · Hidden Hidden My wife had not yet received her endowment when we met, a month or so before we married, she was scheduled to go to the Temple. One of her close girlfriends, my (future) wife and I drove to the Temple and walked up to the door, and as the door was opening her girlfriend turned to her and said in the most serious tone with a straight face "Please don't fall off the goat" and then turns and enters the door. My (future) wife stops and looks at me and says "Goat?" I'm practically rolling on the ground laughing my head off. The rather elderly gentleman at the reception desk is looking at me and trying to figure out if he should call security or not. I finally got it together but had a smile on my face the entire time. For those non-LDS here, there are no goats, it was a joke.
StallionMcBeastly Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 · Hidden Hidden It also involves a Temple ceremony. The nude clogging does not occur till later.I forget, does the nude clogging happen before or after we feast upon the ovum of a virgin lamb?
deseretgov Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 · Hidden Hidden Don't forget biting the heads off bats and self mutilation. That's my favorite part! Ok sorry. Just kidding. I actually prefer the nude clogging.
myway Posted October 14, 2008 Author Report Posted October 14, 2008 Thanks guys, I appreciate it. So much to learn. Quote
YoungMormonRoyalist Posted October 14, 2008 Report Posted October 14, 2008 *Sighs* Way to go guys..... Quote
MaidservantX Posted October 15, 2008 Report Posted October 15, 2008 I hesitate . . . um . . . honestly I smiled at the jokes, they are cute, but just . . . try to not go too far away from reverence of the temple? I know the jokes are about what the crazy ideas people who don't know sometimes get, but still . . . and also perhaps stick to the OP. Luv ya . . . just a reminder that Big Sister is reading, lol. Thanks. Quote
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