Making sealings harder to print since we are supposed to do everyone's work before sealing them

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Rebekah Wittig Johnson said: Dont allow for sealing to parents or sealing to spouse when printing a new card. It's too hard to keep track of whether or not a person's spouse or both their parents' work is done. So if there is some way to hold off allowing that to print (just like how we cant easily request ordinances of people who have died sooner than 110 years ago) have the sealing options be available to print only once the others' temple work is finished.

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Tom Huber said: Brett is absolutely correct.

Many members have the mistaken notion that ordinances absolutely, without any exception must be done in the preferred order.

That is certainly true for living ordinances, but for our deceased relatives, it is not an absolute and, as Brett points out, it is only "if possible" and "whenever possible."

In the case of Sealing to Parents (SP), there are situations where it is not possible and, in fact, we are prohibited by policy from even reserving the parents' ordinances of the unrelated spouse of our relative. As Brett points out, the Sealing to Parents belongs to the child, not the parents, which is why it is printed on the child's card and not on either the couple sealing card of the parents or each individual parent's card.

As to the sealing of couples (SS), that is printed on its own card so that sealing can easily be completed (by mistake) before either or both person's individual ordinances have been completed. This is often the case in extracted birth records where the parents are named to one degree or another, but insufficient information given about them to reserve their individual ordinances.

If others believe that these sealing ordinances must be completed in order, please take the time to explain to them that current policy and practices match those of the past and that it is entirely permissible to complete the sealing ordinances prior to completing the individual ordinances of the couple/parents.