Question about sealing families if you convert

Lilac · #1 (**permalink**) 07-18-2009, 04:44 PM

Just wondering...
If we make a full conversion...assuming we have a temple recommend. (I'm thinking way far ahead of myself!)

How does my family get sealed together? In a temple but are the kids with us? Are children allowed in a temple?

Blessings.

pam · #2 (**permalink**) 07-18-2009, 06:20 PM

Children are allowed in a temple. That way they can be sealed to their parents. I was sealed to my parents when I was about 7 in the Los Angeles Temple.

Lilac · #3 (**permalink**) 07-18-2009, 08:48 PM

That sounds nice.

breecatasnana · #4 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 04:51 PM

If you and your husband join the church and are active for about a year, you can get a temple recommend. You will recieve your endowments, be sealed together, and have your children sealed to you. They will be allowed in the temple for this sealing. Generally children are not allowed in the temple, but for the sealing they are.

Penny

pam · #5 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 05:04 PM

You are correct Bree..I should have clarified that on my post. Children are allowed in the temple at the time they are being sealed to their parents. At no other time.

breecatasnana · #6 (**permalink**) 07-19-2009, 05:48 PM

Your welcome.

Penny

Maya · #7 (**permalink**) 07-31-2009, 07:02 AM

My family is sealed, but I am not sealed to my parents yet. My mother 93 is stil alive and well and she is not a mormon, so I need to wait...

annamaureen · #8 (**permalink**) 08-24-2009, 07:08 PM

My parents converted when I was three, and I was sealed to them... it's one of my earliest memories.

bytebear · #9 (**permalink**) 08-24-2009, 09:07 PM

Just a note, if you are sealed in the temple as a couple, any future children are automatically sealed to you, as they are "born in the covenant."

Wants2Know · #10 (**permalink**) 09-23-2009, 10:35 AM

I read somewhere that if a husband and wife are sealed, and subsequently divorce... and then the husband is remarried and has a child with the new wife (they are not sealed), that the new child is part of the covenant with the xwife (and therefore sealed to her). Any comments or thoughts on this from anyone?