Personal Worthiness 2

September 10, 2008
Personal Worthiness
Principle: 1. Personal worthiness allows prospective missionaries to obtain temple blessings.

D&C 109:22-23
The temple is the house of the Lord. It is a very special and spiritual place. We need to be worth in order to enter the temple. We will receive many blessings from the temple if we are worthy. On the other hand, people who enter the temple unworthily will receive condemnation. The spirit will only be with those people who are clean. We do not want the bad spirit to be in the temple. It is important to become worthy before enter the temple.

D&C 110:7-9
To get the endowment in the temple requires personal worthiness. The endowment is a great gift and blessing from our Heavenly Father. The endowment will bless missionary, and guide them to teach. Also, it will protect the missionaries from danger. I think the temple blessings is only for those who are worthy. As we preparing for the mission, we should stop sin and repent to become worthy. If we do so, we will always feel the spirit and be blessed.

Principle: 2.Repentance is a cleansing process that allows us to become worthy.
1 John 1:5-10
Repentance is an important principle to help us become clean and worthy. Jesus came to the earth, suffered and died to pay for our sins. Through his sacrifice and atonement, we are able to repent. Everybody on the earth makes mistakes, we should be grateful for Jesus Christ's sacrifice and atonement. Without him, we will not be able to repent.

Mosiah 26:29
To repent, I think we must admit that we have sins first, then we repent. If we just lie our sins, and do not repent, we will not be forgiven. After we die, we will be judged according to the sins which we have committed. Instead, if we admit our sins and repent, Heavenly Father will forgive us. We will become clean again.