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[latterday-mouth-share]

I love this so much! The first time I saw this, the first thing I thought was happiness is a choice, and it is YOURS to make.

Just because there are others who may have more than you do, doesn’t mean you should start feeling bad about yourself. Rather, you should count your blessings on what you do have and think of what matters the most to you. Being happy for someone else can bring you just as much happiness.

As they say, counting blessings is much better than counting problems or other negativity. Always be positive and stay happy! Build your own happiness and strive to be Christ like!

Follow the example of the Savior!

Be an example others would want to follow!

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[msbrightsides]

Keep Sweet: Prey and Obey was so horrifying but I couldn’t look away. Men will do anything in the name of God to justify absolutely heinous actions. The followers have nothing left to do but watch. They are isolated and are taught to put all their faith in one man, as if that doesn’t go against The Bible and it’s teachings of not following false idols. Religion is flawed in of itself bc it’s man made and cults like LDS fundies take it to the extreme. This is why I will never stand behind organized religion.

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[roses-red-and-pink]

29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

1 Corinthians 15:29

I think that God’s plan to provide salvation for those who never got the opportunity in this life really shows his Mercy and his perfect Justice. How unfair would it be if those who had never heard of Jesus Christ were condemned because they never were baptized. But we know that after death, in the “spirit world” as we await the resurrection and Christ’s second coming, that the gospel is preached by the spirits of the righteous to the spirits of the wicked/those who never heard the gospel. As they do not have bodies, we are blessed in the restored Church of Jesus Christ to be baptized in holy temples on their behalf and provide them the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their saviour.

(For those curious or confused, being baptized for the dead doesn’t automatically force that person to accept Christ or His gospel. We believe that their spirit still has the ability to accept or reject the ordinance on their behalf, but since we can’t really speak to spirits we just do the baptisms and hope they accept the gift :) also this is why we have such a focus on family history so we can find our relatives and ancestors and be baptized and do ordinances for them)

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[midwesternartlovertraveler]

The Salt Lake City Temple and Temple Square are being renovated. These pictures were taken May 4, 2022. https://midwesternartlovertraveler.tumblr.com/

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[latterdaysaintings]

The temple should always be our castle.

@latterdaysaintings

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[glitteryfoxsoul]

Found myself at church this morning

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[coder123321]

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[latterdaysainttemples]

Inside the newly renovated Manti Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Read the Church Newsroom article. Learn more about Latter-day Saint temples, their purposes, and find a temple open house near you.

Built 1888, renovated 1985, rededicated 2024.

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[loveerran]

Could you elaborate on the JS sealing practices?

Great question! Thank you :)

What I am referring to (in this post) is the breadth and depth of the sealing power as envisioned and implemented by Joseph Smith and practiced in the early church. The original post speaks to how our family is more than just direct line descent or blood relations.

I've previously noted that 9 of Joseph's first 12 plural sealings were to women already legally married. Today, we regularly seal deceased women to more than one man (and deceased men to more than one woman) if they were married to more than one individual in mortality. We understand it will all be sorted out later.

But more interesting to many of us is the notion that sealings were performed for things other than marriages and the sealing of direct-line ancestors to direct-line progeny. Consider this account from the diary of John M. Bernhisel relating a sealing between friends and cousins, aunts and nephews and so on:

"The following named deceased persons were sealed to me on Oct 26th 1843, by President Joseph Smith: Maria Bernhisel, sister; Brother Samuel's wife, Catherine Kremer; Mary Shatto, (Aunt); Madalena Lupferd, (distant relative); Catherine Bernhisel, Aunt; Hannah Bower, Aunt; Elizabeth Sheively, Aunt; Hannah Bower, cousin; Maria Lawrence, (intimate friend); Sarah Crosby, intimate friend, /died May 11 1839/; Mary Ann Bloom, cousin."

A Gospel Topics essay notes early sealing practices may have been intended to extend family ties "both vertically, from parent to child, and horizontally, from one family to another".

Of additional interest is how proxy ordinances for the deceased, including proxy baptisms, could be performed by someone of any gender, prior to Brigham Young clarifying the same gender requirement in 1845. We also note non-related individuals were sealed by adoption to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and other church leaders, including men sealed to men as father/son adoptive pairs.

Some believe our current evolution in practice aligns itself more closely to God's will and the original practice was at fault or incomplete. However, I give Joseph's expansive vision a lot of room. And the truth is that non-family, non-lineal sealings were performed by Joseph and others. Will those sealings be honored in the eternities, or will they be null and void? I have a hard time believing the latter. And what of OP's case for "the spinster aunt who had no kids but made sure that three of the six kids her sister abandoned survived into adulthood"? Church doctrine is big on adoption already, and I can only imagine that relationships like found family and adoption continue in the eternities.

To me, the sealing vision feels more expansive than our current understanding and practice may be.

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[thebunnylord]

So… funny church story that happened to me when I was little…

When I was in primary, they decided to have the kids come to the temple with our parents and teach us the importance of temples and all that. We didn’t go inside the actual temple itself, we just looked through the door.

Well, right before we walked from the church building to the temple building, they had an activity where we built our own temples out of toothpicks and mini marshmallows. Of course being a little kid, I made an igloo temple for Antarctica complete with an outdoor baptismal font for the penguins.

And then I devoured it.

Of course I got sick. As we were walking up the steps from the church parking lot to the temple, I turned to my primary teacher and was like “sister [cat], I think I’m going to puke…”

I was immediately rushed to the front of the line to puke in the bushes and it just so happened right at that moment, one of the adults took a picture of us from behind. It featured me and sister [cat] hurrying up the steps while I stumble behind trying not to puke.

A few weeks later they used that picture as part of their bulletin board right outside of the chapel to show every one of our trip. Out of context and from the position it was taken in, it looked like a group of primary children climbing up the steps to see the temple.

However! If it was taken facing us from the front, you could probably see just how sick I was and the anxiety on the poor sister’s face of not having me yak all over the beautiful temple grounds. Only me, her, and my parents know of the full context of that picture.

Moral of the story: don’t gorge yourself on a crap ton of mini marshmallows right before a temple trip.

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[latterday-mouth-share]

1) Provo

2) Manti

3) Kirkland

4) Taylorsville

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[ham-and-cheese-studios]

Flashback to when I worked at my parent's restaurant and this was a huge problem we had

#exmo #nevermo #mormon #exmormon #lds #all temples should be destroyed btw

[kimsiever]

Today was a day of queer joy for me.

It started with attending the temple in my rainbow socks and wearing my rainbow pin. I was surprised to see an old friend in the endowment ceremony. Both of us are queer, and we sat next to each other the entire time. It was kind of cool to be in the temple with another queer person. I mean, I didn’t go there with them, but just being next to them felt like an act of solidarity. It ended up being the most moving part of the experience.

I wish all queer people were free to have that same experience. But the church refuses to let some of our queer siblings into the temple.

Then after Mary and I returned home with our two youngest, I went to the university as a representative of OUTreach Southern Alberta Society with another board member. We hung out at a queer social hosted by Q-Space, where we did crafts, played games, ate snacks, and made bracelets.

I finished the day on a date with Mary watching the movie Nyad, a story of a queer 60yo woman who swam from Cuba to Florida.

Queer people need queer joy.

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Nauvoo Illinois Temple

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[midwesternartlovertraveler]

How the Temple will Survive Earthquakes

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