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Knowledge
in Temple Preparation & Temple Worship (Combined with
Young Women)
Submitted June 2003 by Deb (Utah) |
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Purpose: To gain knowledge in
Temple Preparation and Temple Worship. To assure
women and young women that they are daughters of God who
have a divine destiny. Prior to this Home, Family and Personal Enrichment Meeting (HFPE) we asked the young women to borrow modest wedding dresses from ward members or family to model. They also got a story about the bride who wore the dress (her courtship, her wedding day, her temple marriage, etc.) that was shared as the young woman was modeling the dress. Decorations: The cultural hall was decorated to resemble a wedding reception with a ramp that came from the stage to the center of the floor for the young women to model the dresses. All round tables, with white table cloths were arranged around the ramp. Each table had an electric candle with white flowers around the base. We decorated around the room with wedding pictures of various ward members and also many temple pictures. Lighting was softened by the use of lamps and soft lighting from stage. A wedding cake was made and a table decorated for it. Refreshments: We served a small chicken and ham wraps, Cookie Salad (Yum!!), grapes and we made temple mints out of white chocolate and packaged them up in a small bag with white ribbon. At end of evening we cut the cake and used that for our refreshment also. Program: We started the evening out with the young women modeling the wedding dresses as the narrator told the stories that the YW had received prior. After the girls had modeled the dresses, there was a short program that went along with the three dresses in a young woman's life. First: We invited a young mother to bring her newborn baby girl in her blessing dress and express her feelings of holding this precious little spirit and her hopes and dreams for her baby. Second: We invited a mother and her daughter, who will be baptized this year. Daughter was dressed in a little white dress and her mother talked about her joy in her daughter being baptized, her love for this little girl and her hopes and dreams for her daughter as she prepared to be baptized. Third: We invited a young women who was to be married this month, to come in her wedding dress and express her feelings about how she has prepared to go to the temple, what kind of young men she dated, what her dreams were for the future. Then we invited the mother to express her feelings of seeing her daughter dressed in her wedding dress, the joys of watching her daughter make the choice to marry in the temple and her hopes and dreams for her daughter Then our Enrichment teacher gave
a short lesson on how young women need to prepare early
for temple marriage - proper dating habits and goals,
staying worthy and being clean to kneel at the alter
with a worthy young man and proper clothing to wear now
as a teen and at the temple. Then she spoke to the
mothers and the RS women - helping young women dress
temple ready now as a teen, being an example to the
young women by attending the temple and staying worthy
to attend the temple often (remembering the covenants
that were made in the temple). She also expressed
some other thoughts such as describing things about the
temple that are appropriate such as: the bride's room;
the mirrors in the sealing rooms that reflect images
seemingly into eternity; the feeling of warmth, love,
peace, and the spirit that you feel in the temple;
having your worthy family members and friends there with
you; kneeling across from one another at the altar. She
concluded by bearing her testimony of the blessings of a
temple marriage. We concluded the evening with the refreshments and cutting the cake and having good chuckles as we went around the room looking at wedding pictures...some 50 & 60 years old.
Temple Handouts that were added to
Preparedness Binders
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