Temple Family Home Evening

Each [temple] is blessing the lives of our members and is an influence for good upon those not of our faith. The ordinances performed in our temples are vital to our salvation and to the salvation of our deceased loved ones.

I think this is a great idea for Family Home Evening, even for someone like myself who is living on her own. We all can focus on being Temple worthy, serving as a worker in the Temple, teaching our children and grandchildren about the meaning of the Temple and its sacred ordinances

Conference Talk:
For more information on this topic read “As We Meet Together Again,” by Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, Nov 2010, 4.

Thoughts:
Each [temple] is blessing the lives of our members and is an influence for good upon those not of our faith. The ordinances performed in our temples are vital to our salvation and to the salvation of our deceased loved ones. (Thomas S. Monson, “As We Meet Together Again,” Ensign, Nov 2010, 4.)

Song:
“I Love to See the Temple,” Children’s Songbook, p. 95.

Scripture:
And inasmuch as my people build a house unto me in the name of the Lord, and do not suffer any unclean thing to come into it, that it be not defiled, my glory shall rest upon it. (Doctrine and Covenants 97:15)

Lesson:
Have your family imagine visiting a foreign country where every city had a sports stadium in the middle of the town, around which everything else was built. Close to every stadium are a concert hall and an art museum. What would these buildings, and their location, tell you about the people of that country?

By the spring of 1833, the Church in Kirtland had grown to several hundred people, with more Saints gathering all the time. To better prepare the Church to take the gospel to the world, Church leaders and missionaries were commanded to study the gospel and also the learning of men. These circumstances created a need for offices for Church leaders, schoolrooms for teaching adults, and even a printing shop. A committee was appointed to acquire land, and the revelation in D&C 94 appoints and instructs a Church building committee.