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I do appreciate your kindness Ray, cwald, and Mom3. I have just felt of late that I hadn’t really done as my SP had asked in seeking out “the ones” as much as I could. He is ever encouraging, and reminded all of us in our last PEC that we should pray each time we go somewhere, including our own wards, to find the ones, and I have not done as well at that as I could. All I’m really saying is that I can do better. In that case, amen. We all can do better, somehow, at something. Thank you for sharing this. I had decided to go to the temple one more time for a friend’s name, and then I was going to walk away and leave it at that. The dreaded temple interview is something I am not willing to do. But it opened my mind to the possibility that I might want a temple recommend enough to do the interview in the future.
I will try to be smart like you and let the other guy do the talking. It seems to me that he might have been looking for support, but you never know.
My wife & I recently renewed our TR’s. I was a good experience. The interview with a member of the Bishop is a person I now consider a close friend. I HT their family. They have been a big help in coming back to church.
The SP is a good person who, I believe is easy to talk to. He doesn’t go beyond the questions or offers personal opinions that are off base.
It is this forum that has helped us to come back & endure the discomfort that we primarily put upon ourselves.
I’m glad we went through the process.
Mike wrote:It is this forum that has helped us to come back & endure the discomfort that we primarily put upon ourselves.
I’m glad we went through the process.
I could have written these words myself, Mike. I had a great deal of angst in returning to church (the only question I cold not answer yes to at the time), but I have discovered that most of what I worried about was coming from inside me and not coming from others. Were there (and are there) well meaning socially inept numbskulls? Yes, but they are fortunately few and far between.
As I have looked back, I have always been glad to go through the process, even in the days when we did it every year and it was always with the bishop. Why? Because it gives me the opportunity to look within and reflect on my own actions. I don’t think the interview has very much at all to do with the person conducting it and signing the form. It’s really all about the person having the interview, and it’s very personal.
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