The Temple is the Only Way to Go!

Something that I have been taught since I was a little girl was that marriage is essential to Heavenly Fathers plan and it is essential for us to do that in the temple so that we can have eternal life with our spouses and our children.

One thing that I have been thinking about lately and this is personally my opinion. When I was a child, I always just assumed that it would be me, my brothers, and my parents and that we would all live in this big home. However, now that I am engaged, I think about how it will be me, my husband and our children. However, now that I have thought about it, my children will have their children and so on. So really, I think about how my husband and I are will be together to create our own worlds. I still believe that we will all be sealed and in the Celestial Kingdom, we will all be one family and all will be equal in a sense but the one we are married to will be the one we progress with. I wonder if I am the only one who has this perspective?

I recently made it a goal to memorize The Family: A Proclamation to the World, and it was successful! By doing this, it became more of a standard to live by daily and something to implement than just something we all hang on our walls at home. I was able to dissect it and apply it to my life. It become apparent to me that men and women have their own roles and that both husband and wife provide certain qualities to the home. Some that the mother and only the mother can provide and it goes for the father as well. A child needs both mother and father.

“Husband and wife need cleave unto each other and none else” (Genesis 2:24)

“ Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 11:11)

These two scriptures describe perfectly what the Lord intends for his children. Husband and wife are to work together to perfect one another. It is important in an eternal marriage that each partner gives 100% and no less in order to make a happy marriage. I also love the analogy that Elder Bednar gives of the marriage triangle where the Lord, Husband and Wife are present and as husband and wife grow closer to one another they will grow closer to the lord.

Eternal marriage is of the highest degree of glory and a sacred covenant that we make with the Lord. It is a contract that is not only legal but an eternal covenant that allows our marriage to be continued beyond the grave. I cannot imagine a life where I couldn’t spend eternity without my spouse. I would be devastated if our marriage was only until death. I believe in temples and the house of the Lord makes it possible for me to be with my husband forever.  I could never imagine going anywhere but the temple. There is nothing in this life that would make me compromise that because the “Temple is a holy place where we are sealed together.” I love the Primary song I Love to See the Temple because it puts the doctrine of temple marriage into a clear perspective and allows us to remember to keep our eyes on the temple because the temple is the only way to be with our loved ones eternally.