Preparing for the Temple

Today was Ward Conference, and I learned a ton! The theme was preparing for the temple. I've always heard about how you should prepare for the temple, but I never really knew what that meant. But today, I learned TONS of ways to prepare for the temple:

1) Strengthen our testimony of the Atonement and the role of the Savior
2) Strengthen righteous desires
3) Gain a deeper understanding of the atonement
3) Overcome sin through the atonement
4) Put off natural man
5) Become a saint (by the strengthening and enabling power of the atonement)
6) Bring cleansing power into our lives
7) Become converted- come to know the Savior
8) Look words up in the Bible Dictionary (Anoint, temple, seal, Atonement, Savior)

From Sister Dalton's Challenge to Young Woman:
1) Pray daily 100%
2) Read scriptures at least five minutes or more daily 100%
3) Live the For Strength of Youth Standards 100%
4) Smile 100%
*Prepare Spiritually
*Prepare Physically

We need to dress modestly daily. It reflects in our actions. Communicate that the temple is your goal by the way you dress. Make going to the temple a plan. We do not have to be perfect (thought we do need to be worthy) to enter the temple. But the things we learn inside the temple will help us to become perfect.

The speaker shared a story of a teen young woman who had taken a Sharpie and written above her door: "The temple is my goal." I'm tempted to do it too.

May the construction of the TEMPLE continue.
May the construction of our LIVES continue.

This will be this WEEKS (if not lifetime) challenge.

-Jannallred