Boyd K. Packer

The temple is a house of learning, but much of our learning about the temple can take place outside its walls. These seven books by esteemed Latter-day Saint authors can help you better understand the ordinances that take place and receive revelation for yourself and your family.

A number of years ago I went with a brother to tow in a wrecked car. It was a single-car accident, and the car was demolished; the driver, though unhurt, had been taken to the hospital for treatment of shock and for examination. The next morning he came asking for his car, anxious to be on his way. When he was shown the wreckage, his pent-up emotions and disappointment, sharpened perhaps by his misfortune, exploded in a long stream of profanity.

The following excerpt from The Holy Temple by President Boyd K. Packer illustrates how we can receive "help from beyond" to do temple work. At the rededication of the Logan Temple in 1979 I recounted an incident in the life of my wife's grandfather, which I include here. The Logan Temple is sacred to our family, for there my wife and I were married, and my wife's grandfather responded to the call and helped to construct that temple. C. O.