Temple sealing question

[Dawglb44]

Hey folks. I've asked a number of people this question and everyone seems to have an opinion, but it always starts with "I'm not really sure". So I've ventured here in the hopes that the collective wisdom of the internet will be able to help.

So I am a person born into a split household. Mother was LDS, Father was not. I was raised as an inactive member (baptized at 8yrs old but never became active) but have come back to the church over the last couple years. Mother passed away a few years ago, but became active in her final years, father is still alive (still not a member). A big reason/motivation/goal for my becoming active and worthy to go to the temple was the thought that I can be sealed to my mother/family for all time and eternity.

So my question is: can I be sealed to my mother separately? Or do I need to wait until my father dies (I don't mean that as morbid as it probably sounds), then baptize, endow, seal to my mother by proxy, at which point I could be sealed to them together? And is there somewhere that this information is published that I could print and share with the rest of my family?

I apologize if I did a poor job of explaining the situation. But thank you all in advance for any light you can shed on this.

[JohnsonJones]

From what I understand it, the best situation is to convert your father, have him go to the temple and then be sealed to your mother in the temple and then you to them.

Of course, the ideal is not the most probable from what you explained. 

In this instance, you would probably have to wait until your father dies.  What comes next depends on what ordinances your mother already had in this life.  It is possible she was already endowed, but if she was not, then any temple ordinances she lacked would need to be performed.  The same is with your father, all his work would also need to be done.  Then, you could have them sealed together and you could be sealed to them.

[zil]

Welcome to the forums, @Dawglb44!   I hope you'll stick around and we can have plenty of nice discussions.

I am 99% certain that you cannot be sealed to just your mother - that would not make sense as children are sealed to a couple who are sealed.  Thus, it will be necessary for your parents to be sealed first.  The two ways for that to happen have already been explained.  If necessary, this could all happen even after you passed on.

Note that you do not need to be sealed to your parents in order to receive temple ordinances for yourself, including being sealed to a spouse.

The place to find documentation on this sort of thing is FamilySearch.org - there's plenty there about who can be sealed to whom.  Some of the information may only be available for Church members, so it may be easiest to create an LDS.org account (using your membership number) and then use that to log in to FamilySearch.org.  (Your membership number can be found on your membership record, your temple recommend, or requested from your ward clerk.)

Hope that helps.  If not, don't give up, there are folks here who I'm sure know more than I do about this sort of thing.

[pam]

The above responses are correct.  A child can only be sealed to 2 parents who are sealed to each other.  One can't be sealed to just one individual parent.

[Dawglb44]

Thank you all for the responses @pam @zil @JohnsonJones I really appreciate the time yall took to explain. This is news to me, but when I think about, it makes sense. Collective wisdom of the internet comes through again!!

Preciate yall. Take care. ?