“The Light and Peace of the Temple,” Friend, July 2022
From the First Presidency
The Light and Peace of the Temple
By President Henry B. Eyring
Second Counselor in the First Presidency
Adapted from “I Love to See the Temple,” Liahona, May 2021, 28–31.
Seeing a temple or a picture of one can give you a desire to go inside someday. The day will come when you can get a temple recommend to do baptisms in the temple. When you are baptized for someone who has died, you help the Savior in His sacred work of blessing a child of our Heavenly Father.
Years ago, I went with my daughter to the temple. She was the last to be baptized that day. A temple worker asked my daughter if she could stay longer to be baptized for everyone whose names were ready that day. She said yes.
I watched my daughter step into the baptismal font. The baptisms began. Water streamed down her face each time she came out of the water. She was asked again and again, “Can you do more?” Each time, she said yes in a determined voice. She stayed until the last person on the list had been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
I still remember the feeling of light and peace as we walked together from the temple. That is how temple service lifts and changes us.
Temple Light
Place these pictures in your home to remind you that you can go inside the temple someday.
Illustrations by David Habben