[itsmee2005]

I HIGHLY recommend the book “Remembering Wholeness” by Carold Tuttle! She has so many answer to so many questions in the book and SEVERAL self-help tools. She is LDS but definitly has a very stage 4 attitude on several things. This book has been answer to so many of my prayers. You can find fairly cheap copies of this book at http://www.half.com or at amazon as well. Good Luck!

[itsmee2005]

Wow you have all chosen some of my favorites!!! Hymns have always been a huge part of my life and there are several I can’t play or sing with out coming to tears. Growing up my grandpa was in the nursing home for the majority of my life. He was a PHENOMENAL pianist and loved the hymns! We would go as a family atleast every Sunday after church and I would play the piano and sing with my family all of his favorite hymns. When he finally passed we were at his graveside and couldn’t help but sing one last time all of his favorites to him. I sing many hymns and then look back fondly on what they have done for me in my life and the inspiration I recieved from singing them to my grandpa. There are a lot of times (and often when I am most emotional singing and playing) that I feel my granpda sitting in the room listening to me playing. It is such an amazing feeling for me.

[itsmee2005]

Welcome and I am glad to see another join the board. I am finding this place to be a haven for me and my questions and concerns. I look forward to seeing more of your posts.

[itsmee2005]

This is my understanding and the way I view it. After this life we will have an opportunity to progress as well as be taught. Both those who have received their ordinances as well as those who haven’t. Say you were a stalwart strong as can be baptist and you died. Once you got up there you started hearing all these things and people talking about baptism and endowements and all sorts of stuff. Well you become curious and so you start investigating what everyone is talking about. The more you investigate the more you find out that you want your baptism and endowments done and you want to be sealed to your spouse. But you missed/never got the opportunity/or turned down the opportunity when you were alive. However, now you want all of it but you don’t have a body so you can’t receive any of it. Would you want to go eternity not being able to obtain it, just because you missed out on it or didn’t believe it in a previous life?

Even though we perform the proxy ordinances doesn’t mean the people they are performed for have to accept them. If in the afterlife they still decide “No this is not for me, I don’t want it.” They don’t have to accept the ordinances and its like they never happened. Just because they are performed doesn’t mean they have to accept them. I would rather have the opportunity and the ability to turn it down rather than never have the opportunity at all, IMHO.

Also I saw a comment about Catholic priests who had remained celebate having their temple work done and being sealed when they were never married. If this has happend I believe it is in great error, because sealings can’t/shouldn’t be done unless there was a marriage performed in this life. From all that I have heard and understand.

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Thank you all for the warm welcome. I am so grateful for this wonderful site, and for all that I have learned already. You are all so brilliant that you may have to be patient with me, because it seems as if most of you are in “calculus” and I am in “pre-algebra” 😆

[itsmee2005]

Since I have yet to go to the temple I am not much help in answering your question, sorry. However I couldn’t help but want to respond to the comment

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There is spiritual power through actual understanding of the symbols not some magic mystical force field that protects the wearers from stray bullets and car crashes.

Not saying the force is mystical or anything but I personally know people who their garments literally provided them a protection from injury. Let me share an example, when I was getting ready to start 6th grade (it was the week before school was to start), the building maintenance crew was going through doing they’re last final check and lighting the furnance before school started. Well the one maintenace guy who happened to be in our ward, went back to light the furnance. When he did so an explosion errupted! It created a fire ball that burned through the halls in the school and caused GREAT damaged to the school and imparticular to this man. When the ambulance came and they got him transfered to the burn unit they started the clean up and realized that majority of his body had sustained 3rd degree burns, with the exception of where he wore his garments. He sustained some minimal burns in those areas but nothing of a serious nature.

Not saying this is always the case or that even things like this happen ALL the time, but from this experience I feel that there is definitely some physical protection that can be had purely through wearing the garments…

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