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Young Women Manual 3

Preparing to Attend the Temple

"Lesson 17: Preparing to Attend the Temple," Young Women Manual 3, 60

OBJECTIVE

Each young woman will desire to prepare herself to attend the temple.

PREPARATION

SUGGESTED LESSON DEVELOPMENT

Each Young Woman Must Be Worthy to Receive a Temple Recommend

Teacher or bishop presentation

Explain that each person who goes to the temple must first receive a temple recommend. To receive a recommend, a member of the Church must have an interview with the bishop and a member of the stake presidency.

If the bishop is visiting the class, he could explain the requirements to receive a temple recommend.

Ask the young women to privately examine their own lives to see if they qualify for a recommend now. If not, they should begin to make themselves worthy.

Explain that in a real interview, each young woman will be interviewed individually. She must sign her recommend to show she has answered all questions correctly and honestly. Then the bishop witnesses that signature. Later a member of the stake presidency also signs the recommend.

Discussion

Ask the young women to suggest ways they can prepare for their temple recommend interviews and for entering the temple.

After their discussion, you may want to suggest ideas like the following:

Testimony

Bear testimony of the joy that comes to those who live worthy to enter the temple for their endowments and who remain worthy of these blessings throughout their lives.

Questions about the Temple

Discussion with teacher or bishop

This is a good opportunity to answer any appropriate questions the young women have about the endowment. Included here are nine questions often asked by young people as they prepare to go through the temple for the first time. You may wish to distribute nine numbered slips of paper containing the following questions to the young women. Use the information below as necessary to answer the questions.

Conclusion

Scripture

After the young women have had enough time to ask questions about the temple and the temple endowment, have them read Doctrine and Covenants 105:18. Bear testimony to the truth of this scripture, as well as to the importance of the endowment.

Ask the young women to commit themselves to live worthy of a temple recommend each day and to practice daily modesty in their dress so they will be prepared for wearing the temple garment.

Possible Class Activities

One or more of the following activities would provide excellent follow-up for this lesson.

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