President Benson shared his early memories of the importance of the temple is his own home as he spoke of his mother:
"I can still see her in my mind's eye bending over the ironing board with newspapers on the floor, ironing long strips of white cloth, with beads of perspiration on her forehead. When I asked her what she was doing, she said, 'These are temple robes my son. Your father and I are going to the temple.'
"Then she put the old flat iron on the stove, drew a chair close to mine and told me about temple work - how important it is to be able to go to the temple and participate in the sacred ordinances performed there. She also expressed her fervent hope that some day her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren would have the opportunity to enjoy those priceless blessings."
The Temple is the nearest place to heaven on mortal earth - how much do we allow that to permeate our daily lives? This beautiful video was shared with us last year at the General Sisters Meeting - do we feel this way ourselves?
"The things that endure, the things that are real, the things that are important are those things represented in the Temple of God."
"Go to the temple - our Father's House - to receive the blessings of your fathers that you may be entitled to the highest blessings of the priesthood...For without this no man can see the face of God, even the Father, and live (D&C 84:22)"
President Benson shared many of the wonderful blessings of the temple:
"When I think of genealogy, I see people - people who I love who are waiting for our family, their posterity, to help them gain exaltation in the celestial kingdom....How many thousands of our kindred yet await these sealing ordinances?"
"It is well to ask: Have I done all I can as an individual on this side of the veil?"
"I promise you that with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died.
"In the peace of these lovely holy temples, sometimes we find solutions to the serious problems of life. Under the influence of the Spirit, sometimes pure knowledge flows to us there. Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. These answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways."
"Let us make the temple a sacred home away from our eternal home."
Is it time you made a journey to your home?
