Preston England Temple
The Sealing of Families
One of the greatest unexpected blessings of my life was when in October 2012, authorised by a prophet of God, the Preston England Temple President invited my wife and I to the temple one Sunday morning and I was interviewed and set apart with the power and authority to seal families for time and eternity.
Preston, England Temple
In recent years procedures and wording of the sealing ordinances, both for the living as well as for those who have passed on, have been adjusted. These adjustments have been so inspired.
The most recent adjustment has been to greatly simplify the procedure for complete families, represented by proxies of departed parents and children, to kneel together at the altar and be sealed for eternity. As I have conducted such sealings the joy and spiritual excitement this has brought to the sealing rooms I cannot fully express.
If you have not yet experienced it, I encourage you to search for and identify an ancestral family, take each individual to the temple and perform their preparatory ordinances, then with enough participants to represent each individual take that family to the altar and experience one of the most joyous moments God has prepared for you, sealing a family together, forever, as one.
Enlarging upon a scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants, section 84 v 20,
‘It is in the simple and beautiful ordinances of the priesthood that the
POWER and LOVE of God is so abundantly manifest.’
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