My Spiritual Temple Journey
A feature added to the ordinance page, only accessible to church members. The ability to add a note to each ordinance as performed ( only added by person who printed card) to record a spiritual experience while they did the work.
I recently had a very special experience in the temple doing the work for my mother in law, and would like to record appropriately it so people who knew her as a member could read about it.
This would increase our testimony of this work, and uplift and edify others. If we all had a easily accessible record of how we felt when we did our own work it would inspire us to sacrifice to attend the temple more.
Family Search could maybe keep ability to edit if felt needed, or an approval button to release once someone has checked the content. Guidelines could be included for people to be guided on content, words restricted to 500, as needed.
Comments
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Some things are too personal and private to post anywhere on the internet, even behind some type of privacy wall. Such temple experiences, in my view, would fall in the same category as patriarchal blessings which are banned from being posted as Memories and should be shared only very selectively and under conditions of greatest reverence. That is why I would not support this idea and would hope such is never implemented.
Such a feature would also carry the risk of exaggeration and falsification due to becoming a game of one-upmanship or a depressing source of "why don't such ever happen to me?" feelings among the vast majority of those who dutifully serve in the temple worthily fulfilling their duty but never have such experiences.
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