Why do we allow sealings when the other ordinances have not been completed ?

AllenRobertWarren

Why do we allow sealings when the other ordinances have not been completed ?

Gordon Collett

That would be a question for Elder Bednar and the Temple Committee.

However, it has been allowed for years. You will find hundreds of thousands of names from the extraction program of about 1970 to about 2010 in Family Tree that have only sealings done.

Vicki Turner Russell

I just asked that question a few weeks ago at the temple, and was told that the goal is to do the ordinances in order, yet I find patrons don't double check all the ordinances names they are doing before taking them to the temple some not completed in order are being cleared for some ordinances.

I was told that the ordinances done even if out of order are valid.

Gordon Collett

The only ordinances provided by Ordinances Ready out of the order we should be doing them in when we reserve names ourselves are:

1) Sealing of children to parents which does not check to see if any ordinances have been completed at all for the parents. All prior ordinances for the child are checked for completion, however. This is just how extraction records have been handled for decades. These extraction records are the source of these kinds of entries in Family Tree: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MX9V-WRN where all ordinances are completed for the child, including sealing to parents in 1982, long before Family Tree, and the parents are in the record with names only.

2) Sealing of couples which does not check to see if any ordinances have been completed for the couple. Again this is like the extraction program. Here is a record from then: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/ordinances/MX3P-TCL

So until this decades long policy changes, feel free to complete any names Ordinances Ready gives you just as when you walk into the temple without any cards of your own and decide to do sealings as provided by the temple

However, if you are working on your own family names that you have found and reserved and are working off your own reservation list, we are counseled to do all the ordinances in the proper order just as if we were receiving the ordinances ourselves. Going through them in the proper order is to teach us.

AllenRobertWarren

Every thing you have said, I have been aware of from the time it was printed. I just feel we have more technology available to help provide order. It's been a long time since the extraction program. Many changes have made in FamilySearch, that are very helpful.