The visiting teaching message this month is about how we can be blessed through attending the temple. I have to say that I am not as good at attending the temple regularly as I should be. With little children at home, it is difficult to find the time, and to get a babysitter. However, that is no excuse for no temple attendance. I am just as responsible as the next member of the church for regular temple attendance.
And, I live in Salt Lake City. I am in the Salt Lake Temple district. Not many people worldwide get to visit this beautiful temple regularly, and I definitely don’t do it often enough! But, there are lots of lessons to learn from the early pioneers regarding temples. They worked so hard on the temples. They understood it was a commandment of the Lord to build them. We are fortunate today that we are not required to actually put in the labor to build our modern day temples. So, maybe that is why we don’t take full advantage of them.
When the Saints were rushing to finish the Nauvoo temple before being driven from their beloved city, they were also in a rush to get the temple endowment. The visiting teaching message shares the following quote from Brigham Young, “Such has been the anxiety manifested by the saints to receive the ordinances [of the temple], and such the anxiety on our part to administer to them, that I have given myself up entirely to the work of the Lord in the Temple night and day, not taking more than four hours sleep, upon an average, per day, and going home but once a week.”
They had anxiety regarding the temple. The knew without a doubt that it was extremely important in their salvation. Do we? If not, then we need to try and gain that knowledge. I think one key way we can do that is through regular temple attendance. I know that I am grateful for temples, but perhaps not grateful enough. I need to work on that.
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