I'm grateful for temples. I'm grateful for the opportunity to go and do work for those that have not had that experience.
I especially like how I feel when I'm there and I am grateful to have a temple close by.
Robert L. Simpson said this about temples in the November 1980 Ensign: "There you will find peace; there you will come to know what security really is. There, in the house of the Lord, you can learn what you need to know to be truly free."
In the book, 'The Abundant Life', Hugh B. Brown said, "We build temples for the express purpose of having a holy place into which the worthy may go to perform ordinances calculated to bind together the living and the dead. Personally I should not like to contemplate the hereafter without my wife and my children, my parents and their parents, my brothers and sisters. I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord."
Lastly I'll share what Gordon B. Hinckley wrote in his book, 'Stand a Little Taller'. "Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks of the importance of the individual as a child of God. It speaks of the importance of the family and the eternity of the marriage relationship."
