Sealing

Last night was yet another great shift at the temple.  For example, a couple came to be sealed to their children.  After they joined the Church and qualified, they brought their children and friends, and it was just like a wedding.  Also there was a wedding, as a returned missionary brought his bride.  Another exciting event was that a woman came to see her mother, a temple worker, who is a nurse.  The young woman is expected to give birth in the next day or so.  As I chatted with her, I discovered that this is her first (and granda's first).  She was praying that all would go well.  All the ladies were touching her and reassuring her, and everyone was smiling.  When her husband arrived, they went downstairs to do confirmations at the baptistery.  Nothing slows these faithful people from offering service in the temple.

The temple is different from a church or chapel.  In the temple, sealers exercise the  "keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven" Matthew 16:19. " if a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the keys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them-Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths..." (D&C 132:19).