I was able to go the temple today and it was awesome to go back again. there is an amazing work that is being done in the temple. Although i am only able to do baptisms for the dead and confirmations, I know that it all starts with just a simple ordinance and faith. I know that i will receive answers from my Heavenly Father by going to the temple and serving those who are unable to preform the ordinance for their self. I have received answers from the Lord and i know he is there, hearing and answering prayers. I challenge you who read this to go to the temple, and even if you cannot go in, you can walk around the grounds and feel the spirit of the lord and feel the lords love for you. i know this to do true.
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LaRene Gaunt, Finding Joy in Temple Service, Ensign November 1994
The temple with its blessings helps us “come unto Christ” (Moro. 10:32). We can find knowledge, understanding, and joy when we attend the temple: first, through sacred priesthood ordinances for ourselves and then as proxy for our ancestors; and second, through personal revelation.
After we receive our own temple endowments, we can continue to attend the temple as proxy for deceased persons, including our ancestors. “The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead,” taught the Prophet Joseph Smith. “Hence, God said, ‘I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.’ (Mal. 4:5–6.)” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,p. 356.)
"Chapter 18: Temple Work: Becoming Saviors on Mount Zion," Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, (2004)
We become saviors on Mount Zion as we build temples and receive saving ordinances in behalf of the dead.
It is our duty to rise up and build these Temples. I look upon this portion of our ministry as a mission of as much importance as preaching to the living; the dead will hear the voice of the servants of God in the spirit-world, and they cannot come forth in the morning of the [first] resurrection, unless certain ordinances are performed, for and in their behalf, in Temples built to the name of God. … Somebody has got to redeem them, by performing such ordinances for them in the flesh as they cannot attend to themselves in the spirit, and in order that this work may be done, we must have temples in which to do it; and what I wish to say to you, my brethren and sisters, is that the God of heaven requires us to rise up and build them, that the work of redemption may be hastened. Our reward will meet us when we go behind the veil. …
… I do not wonder at President [Brigham] Young saying he felt moved upon to call upon the Latter-day Saints to hurry up the building of these Temples. He felt the importance of the work; but now he has gone, it rests with us to continue it, and God will bless our labors and we will have joy therein. This is a preparation necessary for the second advent of the Savior; and when we shall have built the Temples now contemplated, we will then begin to see the necessity of building others, for in proportion to the diligence of our labors in this direction, will we comprehend the extent of the work to be done, and the present is only a beginning. When the Savior comes, a thousand years will be devoted to this work of redemption; and Temples will appear all over this land of Joseph,—North and South America—and also in Europe and elsewhere; and all the descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth who received not the gospel in the flesh, must be officiated for in the Temples of God before the Savior can present the kingdom to the Father, saying, “It is finished.” 11
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