For many years a small piece of paper has been on the door of my fridge, it reads, "I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels will watch over your loved ones when Satanic forces tempt them, the veil will be thin, and great spiritual experiences will distill upon this people." - Vaughn J. Featherstone. About six months ago, in the Saturday morning session of conference of the church I attend ( I originally said "my" church, but it isn't mine, it is the Saviors' church), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, it was announced that in the city where I was born and grew up, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a temple would be built. http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/winnipeg/ Sayings like, "when pigs fly", came to mind, or maybe, "in the Lord's due time." Winnipeg, REALLY! My eyes and my heart welled up and although you could only see the tears in my eyes I know there were tears in my heart also. What a blessing to that small group of Saints, who up until now have had to go to Cardston or Chicago, or Regina or Bismarck ... now they will be able to serve in their "backyard ... I was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The missionaries came to my home when I was eight years old, Elder Bruce R. McMurtrey and Elder Benny Richard Smith. You never forget the names. My mother talked to them and it created quite a division in my family. I wasn't able to join the church until I was sixteen, but, with the support of many, I went to church all those years . I learned about temples, saw pictures of temples, but never saw one, in person, until I went away to university. I remember coming with a friend to Salt Lake City from Rexburg, Idaho, where I spent my first year of college, and upon rounding a corner south of North Salt Lake, I saw the Salt Lake Temple. I am an emotional person and I think I sobbed quietly! I have lived in Utah for about forty years, always living within a ten minute drive of a temple, but the people who nurtured me spiritually in Winnipeg have not has the blessings of a temple in their midst. Now they will! My husband's family were temple builders. John Rowe Moyle, after being kicked in the leg by a cow, had his leg amputed and walked, each week, with his wooden leg over the mountains from his home in Alpine, Utah to work on the Salt Lake Temple. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Z2DIWp7FQ (Clip from the move, "Only A Stonecutter - Ashlyn, my daughter was an extra in the movie). One of the last things he did before he died was carve the words "Holiness to the Lord," that appears on the east side of the Salt Lake Temple. His son James was a foreman on the Salt Lake Temple. Somewhere on the Winnipeg Temple you will find those same words. Follow this link to know more about temples https://www.facebook.com/Mormon/videos/1445295125504104/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED and the Winnipeg Temple http://mormontemples.org/winnipeg Elder James E. Talmage said: “‘Mormonism’ has taught me that God holds himself accountable to law even as he expects us to do. He has set us the example in obedience to law. I know that to say this would have been heresy a few decades ago. But we have the divine word for it: ‘I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise.’ ( Doc. and Cov. 82:10 .) He operates by law and not by arbitrariness or caprice.” (In Conference Report, Apr. 1930, p. 96.) I go to the temple to serve, to find peace, often to pray and contemplate life's situations and I belive that I go to the temple so that my children and now grandchildren will draw closer to the Lord and unseen angels will watch over them. "When you come to the temple you will love your family with a deeper love than you have ever felt before. The temple is about families." - Richard H. Winkel. The temple is a place of beauty that leads our thoughts and actions heavenword. It will be that way for all the people in Winnipeg ... this I BELEIVE! My name is Sharon Lillie Hewlett, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am a Mormon, I was born and raised in Winnipeg, and my spiritual roots are from there also.
Friday, October 14, 2011
A Temple in Winnipeg ... What a Blessing!
For many years a small piece of paper has been on the door of my fridge, it reads, "I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels will watch over your loved ones when Satanic forces tempt them, the veil will be thin, and great spiritual experiences will distill upon this people." - Vaughn J. Featherstone. About six months ago, in the Saturday morning session of conference of the church I attend ( I originally said "my" church, but it isn't mine, it is the Saviors' church), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, it was announced that in the city where I was born and grew up, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a temple would be built. http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/winnipeg/ Sayings like, "when pigs fly", came to mind, or maybe, "in the Lord's due time." Winnipeg, REALLY! My eyes and my heart welled up and although you could only see the tears in my eyes I know there were tears in my heart also. What a blessing to that small group of Saints, who up until now have had to go to Cardston or Chicago, or Regina or Bismarck ... now they will be able to serve in their "backyard ... I was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The missionaries came to my home when I was eight years old, Elder Bruce R. McMurtrey and Elder Benny Richard Smith. You never forget the names. My mother talked to them and it created quite a division in my family. I wasn't able to join the church until I was sixteen, but, with the support of many, I went to church all those years . I learned about temples, saw pictures of temples, but never saw one, in person, until I went away to university. I remember coming with a friend to Salt Lake City from Rexburg, Idaho, where I spent my first year of college, and upon rounding a corner south of North Salt Lake, I saw the Salt Lake Temple. I am an emotional person and I think I sobbed quietly! I have lived in Utah for about forty years, always living within a ten minute drive of a temple, but the people who nurtured me spiritually in Winnipeg have not has the blessings of a temple in their midst. Now they will! My husband's family were temple builders. John Rowe Moyle, after being kicked in the leg by a cow, had his leg amputed and walked, each week, with his wooden leg over the mountains from his home in Alpine, Utah to work on the Salt Lake Temple. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Z2DIWp7FQ (Clip from the move, "Only A Stonecutter - Ashlyn, my daughter was an extra in the movie). One of the last things he did before he died was carve the words "Holiness to the Lord," that appears on the east side of the Salt Lake Temple. His son James was a foreman on the Salt Lake Temple. Somewhere on the Winnipeg Temple you will find those same words. Follow this link to know more about temples https://www.facebook.com/Mormon/videos/1445295125504104/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED and the Winnipeg Temple http://mormontemples.org/winnipeg Elder James E. Talmage said: “‘Mormonism’ has taught me that God holds himself accountable to law even as he expects us to do. He has set us the example in obedience to law. I know that to say this would have been heresy a few decades ago. But we have the divine word for it: ‘I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise.’ ( Doc. and Cov. 82:10 .) He operates by law and not by arbitrariness or caprice.” (In Conference Report, Apr. 1930, p. 96.) I go to the temple to serve, to find peace, often to pray and contemplate life's situations and I belive that I go to the temple so that my children and now grandchildren will draw closer to the Lord and unseen angels will watch over them. "When you come to the temple you will love your family with a deeper love than you have ever felt before. The temple is about families." - Richard H. Winkel. The temple is a place of beauty that leads our thoughts and actions heavenword. It will be that way for all the people in Winnipeg ... this I BELEIVE! My name is Sharon Lillie Hewlett, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am a Mormon, I was born and raised in Winnipeg, and my spiritual roots are from there also.
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