Temple work
Temple Department
With so many Temples now in operation throughout the world and so many people submitting work for the Temple to do it is getting much harder to see any progress in the work you submit.
Now you can submit names to the Temple for baptism and confirmation and other ordinances with the hope of getting some work completed. I do do as much as I can myself but it is not possible to complete all the work yourself. It would be a positive thing for people who submit work and live in a country where Temples are operational to have the work they submit done by the Temples in that country.
That way the more members who attend Temples in that Country will see work they submit being completed.
If every Temple district were doing work for members who live in that district or country who submit work then people who live in those Temple areas will see work being completed on the names they submit.
When a Temple runs out of names submitted by the members who live in those areas they can then request names from other Temple districts and assist them in the work they have.
If this were a policy that each Country with Temples do the work submitted by the members of the areas those Temple service then everybody will see progress in the work they submit and then feel inspired to submit more names to get the work done.
As stated before I do not rely upon the Temple system to do my work but it is just to much to do alone.
I have work submitted in my reserve list that has not moved in years. It just sits there and very little if any work gets completed. When I go to the Temple to do work such as Initiatory work I see the names of people from other parts of the world mostly on those lists. Yet I have many names in my reserved list waiting to get work done.
I am happy to do that work for those people as they are all God's children and deserve to get work done for them. I just think that work could be completed by members who live in those countries and have submitted those names could have done the work in Temples in the lands where those names were submitted.
Then the work I do in the Temple will be for members in my Temple district. & Country.
Having members being responsible to do the work in the Temple for members they know and serve with will push the work along as those people will see real progress in the names they have submitted.
Then the harder we work in our own Temple the more we will see Temple work progress for the members in our Wards and Stake.
I am not suggesting that we should only do work for our own members who submit names in our Temple district. Just that they should get priority. When we run out of names then draw on people from other Countries and Temples.