How Do You Prepare To Go To The Temple (Latter Day Saints)?
• Don’t wait until you are perfect to go to the temple. Perfection is a goal that we will not obtain in this life. • Ensure that you are living church standards. This will include the biggies (thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, etc.) as well as the smaller things (don’t drink, don’t smoke, pay your tithing, fast, etc). • Contact your bishop or branch president and he can help you to work through any worthiness issues you may be having, then he can issue a Recommend. • Attend a temple preparation class. This is a Sunday School class that will help a great deal in preparing you for temple attendance. It talks about the history of temples all the way back to Adam, the purpose of the temple, and what we do there. • Read about the Temple and its purpose. From classics like Boyd K. Packer’s “The Holy Temple” to modern works by men and women in the church, reading will help you prepare intellectually and spiritually for the experience. • Men, make sure you have been ordained to the pr
