St. George Utah Temple

I don't know if that's just an oversight or if it actually is what they're gonna do.

Well, I want you to know, um, you remember, you know, in the, in the St. George Temple, historically, the founding fathers come and they say, "Hey," uh-

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... you know all this, right? There's that.

Charlie joined the local Mormon drama club as a boy, which was the start of a lifelong love of theater.

In November 1877, Charlie got his endowments at the St. George temple.

That's where he married Ruth Young, one of Brigham Young's daughters, the next year.

So Brigham Young was technically his father-in-law, but also technically not, because he had died before Charlie married Ruth, if that makes sense.

Brigham Young had that same desire.

On the 1st of January, 1877, carried into the room in a chair because his legs were so weak, he addressed the congregation that had met to dedicate the lower story of the St. George temple.

This prophet, seer, and revelator declared to the Saints, "We enjoy privileges that are enjoyed by no one else on the face of the earth.

When I think upon this subject, I want the tongues of seven thunders to wake up the people." So each of us, in our own spheres of influence, can lift up our voices like trumpets.

And it's not just beer.

It was, I remember going to my, many years later in 2011, going to my sister's wedding in the St. George Temple.

And we took, like, a shuttle.

We all went to, like, one hotel, like, took a shuttle.

We had a shuttle to the St. George Temple.

And my wife and I, we went inside the temple.

But Grandpa, of course, didn't go in the temple.

and had begotten all the spirit that was to come to this earth and eve our common mother who is the mother of all living for those spirits in the celestial world and when this earth was organized by elohim jehovah and michael who is adam our common father

So that's when Adam God theology entered formal St. George Temple instruction under William Young's direct supervision.

Even Fair acknowledges that the St. George endowment included a lecture at the veil with references to Young's Adam God teachings.

19th century Mormons had heard Brigham Young teach Adam God repeatedly.

Picture this.

It's 1877, and church president Wilford Woodruff claims that the founding fathers of the United States appeared to him for two straight days in the St. George Temple, literally demanding to be baptized.

He said he immediately went down into the font and had it done.

It's a story that perfectly illustrates the deeply held doctrine of proxy baptism.

We went on like a Thursday.

So, I mean, it was steady, but it wasn't like the St. George temple.

That was a mad house.

And they didn't ask for our reservations at all.

I'll be brief with this one.

But I took my kids down to the St. George Temple and we're going through the visitor center and there are some sister missionaries there.

And the ones that did the little presentation with our family, she has a blue copy of the Book of Mormon, but if you can picture it, she's painted the front cover kind of nice, you know.

And again, it is like, it's almost falling apart.