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Originally Posted by Archaea
I'm glad your reaction was basically positive.
In reality, if somebody such as Pelagius or SEIQ could convey to you the collective revelatory impact of the endowment ceremony in a meaningful fashion, you'd be surprised about the good stuff there, which almost nobody actually takes the time to instruct you on. As you reported the temple prep courses are horribly boring.
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Oh, they don't tell you jack about that. The instruction I received as to what anything in the temple really means was right along these lines:
There is a lot of symbolism in the temple. (Which was followed by an absurdly simplistic discussion about what symbols are...as in, they drew a stop sign on the board.)
...and that's pretty much it. The High Counselor was a little better. He made me rattle off all the symbolism I could think of in baptism, and then rustled up a few scriptures in the OT to go along with the discussion. I could have just skipped that temple prep class and just stuck with the temple orientation meeting and that would have been perfect.