Congratulations to the Cotton and Hinchen families! Wednesday they were endowed in the San Diego Temple and then sealed right afterwards. What a special day for this family.
A few words of council for all of us given by President Howard W. Hunter: "Truly, the Lord desires that His people be a temple-motivated people. It would be the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church be temple worthy. I would hope that every adult member would be worthy of—and carry—a current temple recommend, even if proximity to a temple does not allow immediate or frequent use of it.
Let us be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people. Let us hasten to the temple as frequently as time and means and personal circumstances allow. Let us go not only for our kindred dead, but let us also go for the personal blessing of temple worship, for the sanctity and safety which are provided within those hallowed and consecrated walls. The temple is a place of beauty; it is a place of revelation; it is a place of peace. It is the house of the Lord. It is holy unto the Lord. It should be holy unto us.
Let us share with our children the spiritual feelings we have in the temple. And let us teach them more earnestly and more comfortably the things we can appropriately say about the purposes of the house of the Lord. Keep a picture of a temple in your home that your children may see it. Teach them about the purposes of the house of the Lord. Have them plan from their earliest years to go there and to remain worthy of that blessing."
I encourage all of us as sisters in the Santa Rosa Ward to go to the temple often! If you do not have a current recommend....get one...If you have not had one before, talk to the bishop to see what you can do to get one and live your lives accordingly to get a recommend in the future. If you have one...attend, as Pres. Hunter said, "hasten to the temple as frequently as time and means and personal circumstances allow."
