What happens in the temple?

Everyone must be baptized to return to Heavenly Father. Many of Heavenly Father's children died without being baptized. After you turn 12, you can be baptized in the temple for those people so they can have the same blessings.

In the temple we also receive an endowment, or gift. This gift is the promise that if we keep the commandments, we can have eternal life.

In the temple a husband and wife can be sealed as a family for time and eternity. That means if they stay worthy, they will be married forever and be with their children as an eternal family.

Everything done in the temple is done by the priesthood, or authority, of God.