Thoughts On the Ogden Temple Rededication

Our family attended the second session of Ogden Temple re-dedication meeting today. Here are some of the thoughts from the meeting that I feel are worth sharing. They are not in any order of importance, but sort of follow the flow of the meeting.

• Trusting Jesus and following Him will guide us back to our heavenly home. The ordinances of the temple help that happen.
• Come to this holy place to improve your own lives and to aid in the work of saving the souls of others.
• Living the life of a covenant keeper and a covenant maker should be our highest priority.
• Ordinances and covenants provide the power to lift us above the effects of the world and find a place of spiritual safety.
• Keeping a current temple recommend indicates our desire to always be covenant keepers.
• Regarding the privilege of entering the temple: You should not take it so lightly.
• The endowment experience in the temple changes you forever.  The commitments and promises made there will impact the rest of your life for good, if only you will continue to honor them.
• Though a temple may be closed for renovation or for maintenance, and though we may be physically far from the temple, our covenants and promises are never closed and should never be far away.
• We can and should have temple experiences in our minds and hearts every day, no matter whether or not we physically enter a temple that day.