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“Your dilemma may or may not have an immediate solution, but the blessings of the holy temple can strengthen you to reenter the world armed with inspiration and spiritual capacity, through the grace of Christ, to faithfully respond to the burdens you bear. ‘Go forth from this house armed with [God’s] power.’”

“Don’t flee from discomfort or think it erroneous. Like Jacob, wrestle with what God and His angels place in front of you. This wrestle will enable God to bless you to see Him more clearly.”

“It isn’t true that anything that causes discomfort is inherently incorrect or not from God. If it were, the pioneers wouldn’t have trekked to Utah, Abraham wouldn’t have offered Isaac, young men and women wouldn’t venture out to uncertain mission fields, and Jesus wouldn’t have atoned for us. The gospel is here to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and the temple is no exception.”

“Those who receive His words “by [His] Spirit . . . can testify that [they] have heard [His] voice” (D&C 18:35–36). The promise of endowment—the power and capacity to enter the presence of God—is very similar. Through the ordinances of the endowment, God will indeed “unveil his face unto you,” but “it shall be in his own time, and in his own way, and according to his own will.””