We have been having a little problem. We changed our YSA temple day from Tuesday Mornings to Thursday nights since school has started again at mornings do not work. We have had a complaint from someone in the temple every week since we began (4). It started of with you can not come without your own priesthood. We brought them, but then there were too many endowed in the baptistry. We had one week where the YSAs drifted in from 5:30 to after 6:00 which created a problem in the laundry, so we announced all week that anyone coming after we had entered the baptistry would not be able to participate; no one was late the next week, but then we had a complaint that the proper reverence was not shown inside the temple (talking). Tonight the complaint is that we are messing up the laundry again as the temple can not handle the YSAs and a ward's young men/women in the same evening. It was suggested that we come with the YSAs only two weeks of the month. It broke Scott's heart. I would like to wring someone's neck although it isn't just one person doing the complaining.
I wonder if I have ever been this kind of a problem for someone who was doing exactly what the Lord wanted them to do. Oh I hope not.
We left the temple pretty dejected. Our stake president told us "Attending the temple once a month is a trial. Attending once a week is a blessing." We took this literally and wanted our YSAs in the temple once a week.
We will pray for a way to resolve this issue. We are sure that one of the best ways to keep the YSAs strong in the church is to have them serve in the temple weekly.
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