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TEMPLE WORK YOU CAN DEFINETLY DO IT GEN! Young Men, Young Women and even Singles Adults, when was the last time you’ve been into this place? When was the last time you performed sacred ordinances inside the holy temple? On the other hand, to all married couples who fortunately perform their temple marriage, can you still remember your feeling as you see each other during your wedding day? Can you still remember your feeling as you went out at the temple door as husband and wife? Can you still imagine the happy faces of the people who attended your wedding? Can you still remember your covenant to your eternal partner and more particularly to the Lord as you enter in the sacred ordinance of marriage? Well with that, when was the last time you’ve …show more content…

We will receive eternal life “if” we obey every commandments, “if” we magnify our calling, “if” we love or family wholeheartedly, “if” we do temple work, “if” we endure to the end so on and so forth. Life begins when we were still on our mother’s womb and basically all of us will die soon. We can never tell when that will happen. Temple and temple work are not only for living people but we can also perform sacred ordinances for those people who failed to receive the gospel when they were still alive. There are many church programs which surely help us to do temple work for these dead people. We have family history, proxy baptism, proxy endowment and proxy sealing. For, Elder Richard Scott, “Any work you do in the temple is time well spent, but receiving ordinances vicariously for one of our own ancestors will make the time in the temple more sacred, and even greater blessings will be received. For without them, we are nothing. For without us they cannot receive the light in the spirit world and receive the ordinances that they failed to do when they were still alive. We don’t need to be selfish, we can received essential ordinances in behalf of our ancestor who dies without having the opportunity to receive these ordinances for

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