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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay
with my younger brother. Did anyone else have church leaders attempting to psyche you out beforehand? My stake president said all kinds of weird things like "don't freak out." I wasn't freaked out until he said that, and then I had to stop and wonder what I was about to get myself into. I kept waiting for something really shocking to happen...and it never did.
I will admit that later that evening I did have a moment of panic when I realized that there's no turning back now, which is admittedly a ridiculous thing to even worry about, since I wasn't planning on falling off the wagon anyway.
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Congrats!
When I was getting ready to go through the temple, my dad told me, "I was really FREAKED out my first time through, just so you know." This was hardly comforting and gave my imagination a little too much room to wander! You just shouldn't say stuff like that to the uninitiated. The temple ordinances are shrouded in so much mystique as is that making comments like "don't freak out" will inevitably lead to exactly that.
Another somewhat traumatizing part of getting ready to go through the temple involved my interview with the stake president. The interview itself went fine, but when he asked what I knew about the temple and I told him a few things (small things that everybody knows, like the fact that narrative is performed live at Salt Lake), he got almost ANGRY with me. He seemed infuriated that I knew some stuff, and with total accusation in his voice he asked me where I had heard it. When I told him that my family had talked about it, he said that they were not honoring their temple covenants and that you are NOT, absolutely NOT to speak of the temple like that. I found myself repeatedly apologizing and then I felt like I had done something horribly wrong. So yeah, that wasn't the most positive experience...