The Power of Garments

[Ruck]

I would like to share with you all this story that has strengthen my testimony. I went through the San Antonio Temple last November and since then have been wearing garments. Now, when I returned home to Utah I worked at KFC. I always hated working there because the grease would stain through my shirts and my skin would feel greasy. I can say from that day forth, where ever the garment covered I never felt grease. And everytime I cleaned them, the grease would come clean.

Well this past July I switched jobs, working at a company that moves uranium taillings. After you work in the tallings, you must do a full body scan to see if you are radioactive. I have seen various times where people have to take their shirts off and leave them there because they have come back radioactive. I always feared the day that my shirt would come off "hot" (the term they use to explain something radioactive). I didn't care so much about the shirt, but it was my garment top that I didn't want to reveal to everybody else. Everybody knew I am LDS, but my garments must be covered.

I noticed something a few weeks ago, as I started with my hands, the scanner would beep the same for me as everybody else. I move to my mouth next, and it would beep the same. My head beeped the same and so did my arms. But once the scanner covered an area that contained my garments, there would be no beep. Never once has the scanner beeped on the areas my garments are.

It is my testimony that these holy clothes were given to protect us. That by following those covenants that we made in those holy temples, we were give our own coats of armor to protect us from the evils that we face.

[cougarfan]

Are you serious?

[Hemidakota]

Can I use this story for talks in the future?

[Solsalia]

That's neat to hear. We are so simple minded sometimes to the power that God has.

[bytebear]

Originally Posted by cougarfan

Are you serious?

And this is the attitude you want the Holy Ghost to confirm? I'm just saying....

[cougarfan]

My Stake President made it abundantly clear to me before I went through the temple for the first time that garments provided no physical protection whatsoever. He said that is a myth that has been perpetuated in the church. I didn't think people still believed that. I was told that the belief started when Joseph Smith was martyred and was not wearing his garments, hence the story started from that to explain the power of the garments.

My Stake President said that garments only provide a spiritual protection. And promoted modesty in dress.

It just seems that if they really provided some kind of physical protection then they would be hard to destroy. But they are easy to burn when you need to dispose of them. And they tear real easy too.

So was my Stake President wrong? He made a big deal of it in our interview.

[bytebear]

Topical Guide: Protection, Divine

[Ruck]

Originally Posted by Hemidakota

Can I use this story for talks in the future?

Yes you can.

And on the subject of garments, I believe that they are also to protect you along with helping you dress modestly. Also when I get in tough situations, I always make the decisions that I feel would be Christ like and wearing my garments remind me to make that decision.

[normaje]

It is not the garment itself but the faith in the power of protection. great story if true.

[sixpacktr]

The garments provide both spiritual and temporal protection. But we must always remember that they aren't 'magic'--it is the faithfulness and obedience of each individual in living the covanants we have made in the holy Temple that give us the protection.

I believe that they give us both. Have seen and heard too many things to think otherwise. They aren't bulletproof, stabproof, or anything else like that, but I believe them to be a physical as well as spiritual protection.