Aisha's Baptism

Posted by: Joshua Alcorn

We would like to share with you a highlight in the life of our good friend Aisha, a Muslim convert to Christianity. Last month she was baptized in front of thousands of people at local church, boldly proclaiming, "I left my household to give my life to Christ, without fear. I want to be baptized today...to proclaim my whole heartfelt love for Jesus Christ." Afterward she ran up to both of us screaming in excitement and almost knocking us over with her hugs. She later told us that she is so thankful for us in her life. Praise the Lord! We encourage you to watch her baptism, it's really moving.

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Erasto said:

I believe we’ve been told that partnes who have lost small children will have an opportunity to raise them in the millenium and they will still get to grow up. Yes, but that comes under the heading of those who are guaranteed exaltation, little children who die before the age of accountability, mentally handicapped, etc.Plus, according to another section in the D&C, the one about Alvin, those who _would have_ accepted the gospel come under that heading. Alvin gets his spouse/sealing/exaltation at some point.Plus, accoring to various passages in the Bible, BoM and D&C, those who die, even as adults, without ever hearing _any_ portion of the gospel are inheritors of at least some degree in the CK. (But details are sketchy on that one.) I'm referring to those passages that say those who die without law are judged without law. And maybe I'm not explaining all the possible situations you're envisioning.Everyone, the good, the bad, and the ugly, gets either a live-sealing ceremony themselves in the temple (ie, has a temple rcommend, etc), or gets a proxy-sealing ceremony (if they were at least married in mortality, or are a special exception), regardless of where they go, CK-1, CK-2, CK-3, TrK, or TlK.But the fact that the ceremony/ordinance (either live married Mormon couples, or by proxy) gets performed doesn't mean the sealing takes effect on the other side of the veil. Only CK-1 people have it take effect on the other side. That's not the right wording, but I can't think of how else to put it for now. Think of the D&C scriptures that say that only the ordinances that are sealed by the holy spirit of promise endure in the eternities.As I understand, all temple ordinances that we perform in mortality are conditional. Live ordinances depend on the faithfulness of the participants. Proxy ordinances depend on the acceptance of it by the spirits, but also depend on the the final judgement of those spirits. If two people we proxy-seal in marrage in the temple don't end up going to the CK level 1, then those two people are _not_ married to each other on the other side of the veil, nor in the resurrection. Now of course they accept the gospel' in the spirit world. Everyone accepts the gospel in the spirit world, even the TrK and TlK folks. Everyone does except the sons of perdition.In other words, no temple ordinances are binding until sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise.Therefore, the only ones who _stay_ (or are really ) sealed/together/married for time and all eternity, are the group in CK-1, the exalted bunch. CK-2 and below live singly and separately .Of course there are the special exceptions , the babies, missionaries who die on their missions, the Alvins, and the heathen as some scripture passages say. If they are guaranteed exaltation, and don't have any sort of spouse/sealing when they die, they will still get a spouse/sealing at some point.We don't know how the babies and the Alvins are matched up or how their sealing ceremonies will work. Like you say, it will likely be in the millennium. Will Alvin get married before his resurrection, or after his resurrection? We don't know.However, according to D&C 132, and 135, perpetually single people like me, who die without ever being married in any earthly fashion, and assuming the person doesn't make it to CK-1, there looks like no sealing will take place.In that latter case, firstly there is no record of an earthly marriage for a proxy-sealing to be based on. Secondly, if the person is not going to CK-1, there is no over-ride or special exception to give that person a spouse on the other side as there is with the babies/Alvins.It's like the GA's tell us single guys. If we don't get married, we're screwed. Single sisters, because there aren't enough temple-recommend holding men to go around, have an excuse. That's another line the GA's have repeated over at least the last 30 years that I've been paying attention: worthy women who die without a spouse will not be denied any blessings in the eternities. The GA's make no such promise to worthy single men.

Alejandro said:

Hi Cathe,Thank you for your wonderful westibe! I love everything about it and can't thank you enough for creating it! I grew up in the Bay Area and currently reside in Miami, Fl. I am an Event Planner and was wondering if you could point me in the right direction. I would love to create my own labels for my events but do not know what software, etc that I need. Can you help me?Thank you Cathe! I am currently using some of your labels for my event next week .THANK YOU!!!Best wishes,Yoli

Nina said:

Heather, as with most things, I've found that if you only start with a siecnre desire to work on your family history, God will lead you along from there. Also, every ward should have family history consultants who will be more than happy to help you, so definitely make use of that resource.Donna, I'm in the same boat--I've done a lot of family history work but gotten a little lax in going to the temple. (FamilySearch gives you the option to submit names to the temple file, which is what I've been doing lately, since I still have a stack of printed cards I'm working through.) Getting to the temple more often is one of my goals for this year; I think temple work should require a bit of a sacrifice on our part.I'm glad you found it uplifting, Ryan. And I've found that most people are pretty kind and respectful when it comes to posts like this, at least in the online writing community.Totally agree, Jamie. If more people made an effort to have a relationship with God nowadays, the world would only be that much better.

Halime said:

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Qaisar said:

So cool, have a friend geittng married so will be using these. Neat idea. I love all the things we can make now days and I am a crafty person so I love trying all these new things I find.

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