Come to the House of the Lord 

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I knew a bishop in one of the wards I served in an Ecuador many years ago who told me about the time he was baptized vicariously for his father. He said he heard his father's voice audibly tell him "Thank you son" After after he rose from the water.

As a lead worker in the Baptistry at Seattle, I had a youth group who was had a young man who was blind and unable to walk. I was impressed upon and allowed another youth who was a wrestler at school and quite muscular, to carry the blind young man down the ladder so he could touch the oxen. As he followed the contour of faces and horns, he was brought back up, to a group of youth and adults looking through the window and all had tears. The majority of spiritual experiences occurred in the Baptistry. Thank you for allowing us to reminisce

The rock above your head looks like a halo , love the stories, l look forward to them each week

I was privileged to have an escort during one endowment session, the man who I was going through for was by my side the whole time. I could see him in my mind’s eye, a Spaniard, long mustache and deep, dark eyes. I knew it was him and I quietly spoke with him as we moved from room to room. That was quite the experience, and the only time I have felt that.❤

Another fantastic video! Thank Bro Merrill!

Bravo for deep-sixing the ads! I so wish the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square would do the same thing for Music and the Spoken Word.

Thanks Brother Merrill. I miss hearing from you at the temple so this is sweet that I can still hear from you.

Love, love these stories! Thank you so much!

Those are two WONDERFUL changes!!!!

When I was twelve, one of the graduation requirements for Primary was to be able to name the locations of all of the temples. (At the time, there were less than twenty.)

Truly a God of order, a God of justice, a God of Love is our Heavenly father. Temple works is an expression how merciful Heavenly father and Jesus Christ.

Thank you Brother Merrill ! Serving in the Temple is one of the greatest joys in my life. I encourage everyone to “come and see”

One thought comes to mind, as the new temples are dedicted, the Stake Centers become Temples for the day and you need a Temple recommend to get in to witness the dedication. If that is so now, why wouldn't we be able to use Stake Centers as Temples during the 1000 years? They have everything that is needed for a Temple. Plus they are dotting the earth now.

Thank you Br Merrill, always enjoy your stories ! I too was privileged to see a family member in the Washington DC Temple during baptisms there, the recorder also saw him, a sacred experience

We have many temple workers with us at Zion or Bust. Thank you for your inspirational stories💞

I love your stories, and they lift my spirit to hear them. I get to work in the Bentonville Temple in the office every week, and I cherish it. Thanks so much.

Thank you for sharing such wonderful stories about the temple. I also changed my heart and now I go to the temple every week. I love the peace that brings to my life. Even though Two of children do not go to church; We have a very close relationship with each one of them. I know that this a a blessing in my life because my attendance to to temple.

Brother Merrill don't forget the 10 Tribes and their billion(s) or so and the City of Enoch and how ever many he will return. Zillions ? As it is done on earth its done in Heaven.

Thank you for your stories , I love to hear them when they come out they make my day

I got to get back in the habit

Thank you, Brother Merrill!

The LORD is in the Temple. I get to go there on Wednesday 8/21/24. I love what you shared today.

I love the Temple with all my heart. So thankful to serve in the Logan Temple. A blessing. A privilege. A honor.

Several times I have felt family members and even people that are not related to me as I've done the work. I consider those to be very sacred times. I would add my testimony as to the power we get when we do the work in the temple. I was just finishing up a service mission in the temple office when I decided to become an ordinance worker. I did both the service mission and ordinance worker for about 6 months and then our Temple closed for the summer. This year I've had some serious health issues even with doing those two duties and the power I felt and the prayers that were answered as I went through the health issues... I can't explain. It was such a blessing to be in the temple so much even in the midst of my struggle.

Wonderful testimonies! One of the best things in RU-vid. Thanks.

What a wonderful way to end my Sabbath Day. Thank you

Thank you. Now I can be inspired without disturbances from the worldly things. Keep up the good work of the temple. Thank you for helping me feel the influence of the good spirit. May Heavenly Father keep blessing you each day.

Thank you thank you every time l lessen your stories I feel the spirit

Thank you for announcing channel will be ad free 😊

Stopping the monetization convinced me to subscribe. Thank you for your work.

Really enjoy your videos. My wife and I also serve in the St George Temple yes last week was a huge wake up for all of us the time is really hastening on. We were so exited to go and do two endowment for family on Saturday one was my grandfather's brother who I never met,but have felt in my heart that he has been waiting for a long time. Thank you for your service. Rob and Dori.

I work in the Tucson Temple. You are right in all of what you have said. It has changed me also, for so much the better. It is a great place to begin in transition to "the mighty change of heart". For me and my wife it was about 6 months into our service when we were driving home late at night after our shift (100 miles each way) when we had the same thought regarding the change of heart as described in the Book of Mormon. That was about 7 years ago. We still work in the Temple. It just keeps getting more awesome. Thank you for your thoughts and experiences as you are sharing them. Perfect name for you channel. If we lived in your area my wife would share an experience regarding 2 small red haired children in the dressing room one night with you. Your brother in the gospel.

I have had the privilege to work in two Temples and now have been called to work in a third. How I love that great privilege I have had many great experiences there

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Beautiful, thank you, Brother. 🤗

I am so grateful for those who are able to and make the time to serve in the temples around the world. Physical issues keep me from being able to return so I rely on others to stand in proxy for my ancestors. These stories lift my spirits and make me sad at the same time. I am strengthened by those who have and share their temple experiences but saddened by the fact I am unable to have those types of personal experiences. However, I have had experiences in my own home that have strengthened my faith in the Lord. Chronic illness is just another way for us to grow closer to our Savior Jesus Christ.

Beautiful. We served as an ordinance worker for years. How blessed we were. To top it off we were called te serve in the Nauvoo temple for a year and seven months. Love the work.

Thank you again brother Merrill..I felt the spirit touch my heart when you relayed those wonderful stories about the temple. May the Lord bless you in all you do and I’ll be happy to meet you in the eternities…a bit far for me to come now as I’m nearly 80 and live in New Zealand but Scottish by birth ❤

Wife & I just got back from KC Temple. The schedule is booked solid since the change. We go often & many of the workers know who we are. We go prepared & now with the shorter sessions, we're able to get into sealings as they are often short men. When I'm there we can often do sons. Today we needed a sealer to help despite them having no openings on the schedule. Still a sacred, holy experience. It brings us so much peace and happiness in our senior years. The visions we enjoy are indescribable. The blessings are real!

Thank you Brother Merrill, I love your testimony. I am unable to go weekly as before, but now I am able to go on a bi-weekly basis and get 2x as much done with the roughly the same amount of time! Hurrah for Israel!!

Thank you Brother Merrill! My San Diego Temple is closed for years for repairs, but I am able to make the drive to the Newport Beach Temple every Friday! What a blessing it is to go each week!

Thank you, Brother Merrill! My husband's first year of teaching school, we lived on the Ft. Peck Reservation. It was like being on a mission among the saints there.

I'm so happy they are allowed to attend. Brings tears to my eyes for my ancestors.

Thank you for these stories. I have also had sacred experiences in the Temple, letting me know my family was there accepting their blessings. I used to live a short walk from away from the House of Lord and attending was very easy. I now live about an hour from the closest temple. Challenge accepted! I will be there every week.

I went to the temple quite tired one night, yet I had a warm feeling with me. We make affirmations in the temple, and each time I acknowledged it, my heart got more excited. I wanted to shout! When I got to the veil, I was crying so hard it was difficult to respond. When I stepped through the veil, I told the veil worker, "She is here!!" He answered, "I know"❤

Thank you for your message at the end

The promises that Brother Merrill just shared about working in the temple are true. I am a temple worker in the Orem temple. Every time I leave the temple after my shift I feel a deep connection with our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ. They love us!Working in the temple will change your life.

Thank you so much for this program and service! I live in Rexburg, Idaho and am five minutes from the temple! Even at 83 years young, I usually do three Endowments a day three days a week as well as spend one or two days a week doing nothing but Sealings for several hours. While I have never seen one of those for whom I do their work, as I sit in the Endowment and 'talk' with the lady, she answers my question as to whether or not she has or is accepting my gift to her, by my arms and hands tingling a LOT, indicating to me that indeed she is glad for my gift! And many are the times when I sit there in the Session and weep with her joy! Or weep with joy as I am kneeling at the altar doing Sealings! There is nothing like it! 😇

Thank You! Ads really irritate me in the middle of an "inspirational story"!

Thank you for a beautiful video on the blessings from the House of the Lord. I have so many beautiful experiences in the temple that I also wanted to share. My Mother in law came to me in a dream when I was inactive. I knew by the dream that she wanted her work done. I came back to church in 2020 and worked with my Bishop in repentance and returning to the covenant path. It was a beautiful and tender mercy in my life. I submitted my mother in laws name to the temple at the end of 2022 and she was baptized on her son's birthday the following January. It was absolutely beautiful to me to see the hand of the Lord in my life. I went to the Atlanta temple to do her Iniatories and endowment on the 6th of January that following day after her baptism. I could feel close to her as I went through the ordinances. One of the workers in Iniatories had the same last maiden name as my mother in law 's Mom. And there was another family connection that is too sacred to share. I knew that she had accepted this work! Another time I was in the chapel in the temple. I was very troubled and felt not very peaceful in a peaceful place. I had brought worries and concerns about my family with me into the temple. As I sat there pondering and feeling heavy this sweet voice came into my mind. It said " Remember to rest in the Lord and bask in His love". That beautiful sentence has brought me comfort in so many situations in life. It's become a scripture to me. I have had other things that are at tender and lovely with those who are accepting the work we do in the house of the Lord. Now when I enter I think about how I'm a guest there and what the Lord might teach me. I always go away with wisdom and comfort when I attend. Thank you Brother Merrill for your channel and dedication to helping gather scattered Israel! It's a beautiful thing that brings joy! ❤🙏🙏🙏

That happens more than you might think😊

I went through the endowment session as proxy for my nephew who had died some years earlier from lupus. I was doing names in the initiatory one day and his name came through my thoughts. I asked one of the brother workers about it. He said “He might want his work done.” As I finished his endowments sometime later, my nephew said in my thoughts, “Thank you Uncle David, thank you Uncle David, thank you Uncle David.” I have no doubt whatsoever that the work we do in the Temple is true. 17:01 8/20/24

Thank you.

Thank you, Brother Merrill for you wonderful, kind spirit.

Good Evening from Ghana where my husband and I are serving a humanitarian service mission. Before we left we also served in the Ogden Utah Temple. Thank you for this channel and for sharing your wonderful stories. I am grateful I found this channel. I have had many wonderful experiences in the House of the Lord and hope to share them sometime. Again, thank you!

I love you Brother Merrill.

This year my dad died and exactly one month later of waiting to do his work, my husband as proxy, was able to start doing his temple word. The month mark fell on the weekend of Father’s Day which felt very special to me to do this for him. Especially the way that he had tragically died, without feeling hope because I was now bringing him hope. 22 years ago I had become a member by myself as a teenager and I was honored to do this for him. He had a tricky family situation and I was confused as to who I should seal him to-which parents. He had been raised by his grandparents and called his grandpa either grandad or dad. They were very very close. On top of this, he had never known his real father, never been acknowledged by him. To this day I don’t even know what this man looks like but through a dna test I know we are related. My dad had told me that when he had heard his biological father had died he said he’d never attend his funeral because he had a chip on his shoulder about never being acknowledged by him. What made it worse was my dad had grown up in a small town and had gone to school with “cousins” that he never closely interacted with or said anything probably bc they didn’t know. The closer I got to my appointment time to seal my dad to his parents, the more I felt unsettled about sealing him to his biological bc I felt like he’d rather be sealed to his grandparents. He wasn’t very close to his mother either. It was recommended to me that his “grandparents” be labeled as adoptive and that I could seal him to both sets of parents and let him choose. During the sealing ordinance, I was more focused on valuing my dad being sealed to his grandparents but when the sealer spoke the name of my dad’s biological father I suddenly felt something. Something that I wasn’t looking for or expecting, something that had interrupted my present thoughts/feelings. I felt emotion that my dad was finally being acknowledged but it wasn’t emotion coming from myself, it was someone feeling emotional. Someone that I couldn’t see but was present. It was like my dad’s biological father was present with my dad and he was finally being acknowledge by his father. It was an impression I felt that did not come from my own feelings and something I was not expecting at all to happen but was real. I’m so grateful for that sweet experience.

The Temple is the gateway to Heaven. If you look, you will see.

You're so lucky to be temple worker. During my single adult years I served for a total of 4 years. Today, I don't have a temple in near proximity and I wish I could serve in the temple again 😢

Sanctification is a process, not an event.

Beautiful! The decision to demonetize is excellent!! The ads are so distracting and intrusive to the Spirit.

Thank you for each video and sharing so many stories ❤️ 17:46

👍💗💗💗🙏🙏🙏😊💗Thank you so much. I am a temple ordinance worker in the Los Angeles Temple.

Which President Smith was serving as Provo Temple president at that time? Thank you for sharing.

It should be clarified that the saving ordnances of the gospel are only required for entry into the Celestial Kingdom. Consequently, during the millennium the saving ordnance’s (I.e. baptism, endowment, sealing, etc.) will be performed for all those who have chosen and are qualified for the Celestial Kingdom. Those who have chosen to go to a lower kingdom have no need of the saving ordnances, and the work will not be done for them.

Can anyone tell me why I think people who are not related to me reach out sometimes I am wondering through cemeteries and that person spirit is there?? Does this ring true for anyone else

Sadly, There will be many people that will not be eligible to go to the celestial kingdom and so will not require any of the ordinances, therefore the number of ordinances needed to be performed will not be as great as we think.

I have a question no one can answer. I took my own endowment (1980) before the major endowment change. Since that time there has been even more changes, not just "modifications". Will all those who made additional covenants and or sealed those covenants by certain signs have to have their own covenants redone? Will all the dead need to have their covenants redone? I won't specify what those oaths and covenants consisted of but was told that God would never change or break those covenants. Should I be worried that I am not under the true covenant God wants? I wonder if this is why all the temples are being built to have work redone that was not correct from Joesph time when the ordinances could not be altered? But have been?

What temples do you mean?