Lds temple marrage game

These recommends are secured from your own bishop and stake president after a searching interview with them. See page 26 for a review of some of the points of discussion. However, the recommend for a temple sealing or marriage is filled out differently from one you might have received before.

Consequently a new recommend must be secured for the marriage. On it, your baptismal date must be entered, and there must be indication that this recommend is for marriage. Less than a Year. This letter must be presented with the temple recommend. Also, if a couple are civilly married and then decide later that they wish to be sealed in the temple in contrast to special conditions, such as those in New Zealand, as noted above in number five , the general rule of the Church is that they may not apply for a temple recommend until one year from the date of their civil marriage.

Any exception must be in writing from the First Presidency granting permission for the sealing. Permission in both instances is received through priesthood channels that begin with the bishop.

Time and Date. A very common mistake is for couples to make their wedding plans and then discover that they cannot be married at the hour, day, or even week that they have planned.

The first rule, in this regard, is to determine when the temple in which you wish to be married is open for marriages. For example, all temples are closed on Monday evenings home evening Churchwide. These temples are closed all day Mondays. Next, determine the time of day temple marriage sessions are conducted.

Marriage sessions are only at A. Tuesday through Friday, A. Saturday, and P. Each temple has its own schedule, a copy of which has been provided your bishop. Space does not permit printing here all of their schedules, but you should consult them in advance. In fact, nearly all temples appreciate your contacting them in advance to make reservations. Then there is the matter of vacations. Some temples close during general conferences of the Church. Three temples in Utah close during the month of July.

Knowing the time of year in which you wish to be married, you must then see if the temple is open at that time. Often, during a vacation or holiday period, the temple may be opened for one day for marriage sessions. Check to find out which day this is. This pattern generally applies to the Christmas holiday period; most temples close a week before Christmas and open after the New Year begins, with perhaps one day open in the holiday period to accommodate marriages.

You must check the temple of your choice to discover these dates. Endowment and Sealing. No person may be sealed in marriage until he has received his endowment.

However, there are three ways you may arrange for the two events—the endowment session and the temple sealing. This is the way many brides plan their day. However, when this is the case, arrangements and scheduling are required in advance. The advantages of each method will probably be determined in part by the circumstances surrounding each individual couple.

In terms of planning, from the time you enter the temple until you leave, you should plan to spend three and a half to four hours for a first-time endowment session and your marriage. The sealing experience alone, together with counsel given by the person who officiates, will generally average approximately twenty minutes.

Another factor affecting time is that you are usually required to be at the temple from thirty to forty-five minutes early when you receive your own endowments on your wedding day, and sometimes a half hour early for a scheduled sealing that is, if you are not attending a session. Temple Clothing. Special clothing is required within the temple, and a discussion with your bishop will acquaint you with information as to appropriate clothing.

Wedding Dresses. Set out the scriptures as well as articles from Church magazines on the temple and eternal marriage. Divide into groups to find scriptures and read articles, etc. Give each youth a blank sheet of paper and a pen to write the important points they find. Assign youth leaders to share what they have learned. Talk about inner strength and how we can resolve to always set our sights on the temple. Discuss appropriate dress and talk about the questions in a recommend interview.

Cut it into squares and place a temple or heart shaped mints or candy on top of each square. I'm an Evangelical Christian.

My fiance used to be LDS some twenty years ago. We are planning on getting married in the fall. I have no qualms about the reception being in an LDS buildig. But, some of my fiance's family is LDS and think that the bishop is okay marrying us. Well, I've been doing research and came across your page. I don't believe that the bishop's sayings are in tandum with a Christian wedding. I don't believe that this "celetial marriage" deal is taught in God's Word.

So, I'm glad you pointed out the differences. Thank you for your site! May God bless you in reaching the LDS people. Most of the ones I've met would give you the shirt off their backs, but doctrinally it saddens me that they are amiss on some vital truths contained in the scriptures. God bless your efforts! I have not been married in the temple yet and am about to get married a second time to a wonderfull woman who we look forward to a beautifull temple marriage.

If you dont know or havent given eachother your "vows" so to say, outside or inside a temple, maybe you should have not gotten married. A reception after the sacred cerimony is just fine for me to "recite my vows". I desire and cherish nothing more than knowing my wife will be there next to me with our children for all time and eternity.

I dont need what mainstream christianity tells me i have to have for a marriage cerimony to hear "I KNOW" everytime i tell my bride to be that I love her. Dear "anonymous", Welcome to my blog. Just FYI, you are required to sign with your name. If you have the courage to share your thoughts, please have the courage to tell us who you are. Just a simple courtesy. You say there is nothing more important to you that having an eternal family. To me that statement is so very sad and tragic If you truly are a Christian you would understand that statement and agree.

While family is a blessing, we are not idolize or spouses or place our love for them above our love for God. That to me is the MOST important thing.

Our earthly relationships are just that earthly. For in that kingdom and in the world to come and in the resurrection we are neither given nor recieved in marriage. In this world, men marry and are given in marriage but in the WORLD to come and in the resurrection there will be no marriage -- but we will be like the angels of God.

I will pray for you my friend, that God may help you to lay down your false gospel and pick up the cross of Jesus. HE is the most important thing. With concern in Christ, gloria. I wonder if you feel any guilt for posting such sacred info of the temple. I don't know you but these things you say are nothing but lack of knowledge in the gospel and as a member. Unfortunately for you, I see poor insight of what you see and hold about the LSD church. Yes its true, that it is hard when sealing with someone, when you're a convert, but seems to me you never found nor had the spirit to teach yourself.

I'm glad you love heavenly father and our savior, but you got and are learning from the wrong gospel. Certainly not lds. Because if you were, a person who would know and hold a strong testimony wouldn't says such things like these. If so, I hope one day you can repent and gain that rightful true knowledge.

Mormons are Christians. We don't hold the 'cross of Christ' symbolically. Again read your scrptures. The bible that holds the old and new testaments are true revelations just as the book of Mormon is as well. The book of Mormon isn't without the bible, just as the bible isn't without the book of Mormon.