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Originally Posted by myway
Hi,
Are all new members required to attend the Temple and recieve the Endowment?
Thanks
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Just as you choose to be baptized or not, you can choose to be endowed or not. As with all covenants with the Lord we can choose. The Lord will never take your agency from you. Nor will church leaders "pressure" you into going to the temple. They will most likely "strongly encourage" but only because they would like for everyone to enjoy the same blessings and the spirit of the temple.
Its important to learn "line upon line and precept on precept".
I am grateful for the endowment. I'm grateful I live close to a temple and I volunteer there each week. There is not another place closer to heaven than an LDS Temple. It has been in the temple that the most proufound answers to prayers have been answered and sometimes its been the unspoken deisres fo my heart that have been answered while I've been in the temple..
There is power in the Temple endowment and in Temple attendance. I would like to testify to that and add . . . I wouldn't want to live in today's world without the blessings of the temple.
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