Elder David A. Bednar, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and his spouse, Sister Susan Bednar, communicate to media between information conferences on the Washington D.C. Temple in Kensington, Maryland, on Monday, April 18, 2022. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
KENSINGTON, Md. — An apostle invited folks to tour the Washington D.C. Temple in an article he wrote and printed on Medium forward of a six-week open home that begins subsequent week.
Elder David A. Bednar additionally talks in a brand new video about how, as a university scholar, he appeared in a video that used to play on the temple’s guests’ middle.
Most of the thousands and thousands who've seen the freshly renovated temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rising above the bushes on the Capital Beltway that encircles the nation’s capital could have some fundamental questions on it, wrote Elder Bednar, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Within the Medium article, Elder Bednar provides succinct solutions to 3 questions:
- What's a temple?
- What occurs within the temple?
- Why can we construct temples?
“Within the holy temples, what we be taught and promise to do adjustments us from the within out, enabling us to grow to be extra devoted disciples of Jesus Christ,” he wrote.
Learn the complete article right here.
The article mirrored Elder Bednar’s remarks throughout three press conferences Monday, when he addressed 150 journalists on the guests’ middle. He additionally led journalists on excursions of what's the third-largest temple of the Church of Jesus Christ.
The Church Information posted a brand new video Wednesday evening about how church leaders and temple tour hosts assist folks discover stillness and peace throughout a temple open home.
Within the video, Sister Susan Bednar says that whereas her husband was a BYU scholar, he had a task as an angel in a movie that was proven on the guests’ middle.
Elder Bednar described spending this week main excursions for CBS Sunday Morning, teams of reporters — together with one from the New York Occasions — and interfaith leaders.
“When you possibly can take folks on excursions of a temple, one of many stops is within the Celestial Room,” he stated. “And we particularly invite folks to not say something; simply go in, sit down and we will talk about it after we come out of the Celestial Room, however we received’t communicate within the room. The quiet in that setting with these folks simply jogs my memory of the verse, ‘Be nonetheless and know that I'm God.’
“We convey folks by way of of all types of non secular and professional backgrounds, however for a couple of minutes, no matter who they're or the place they got here from, they sit within the Celestial Room and they're nonetheless.”
The temple can be open to most of the people from April 28 to June 11, besides Sundays. Demand free of charge tickets is excessive and tons of of 1000's are anticipated to tour the temple, which has been closed to the general public for 48 years.
Tickets can be found at dctemple.org/open-house.