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shows you are ‘worthy’ and a faithful Mormon

What makes one worthy and faithful and who decides? Do they take attendance at church or rather a temple? So they say, we go to temple and not church?

sealings (marriages) for dead relatives.

What is that about? Like a funeral?

you take out your own endowments

What does that mean? They sure have their own lingo - so having secrets wouldn't be so far fetched. As you can see, I'm ignorant to the Mormon religion and just reading this, I consider my ignorance a blessing!

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Here are some links.

The local leadership determines who is worthy. Regular sunday service are held in their chapels, only special ceremonies occur at the temple.

Here are the LDS temple recommend questions (there are also several things you have to do consistently like paying a full 10% tithe and regular attendance, no coffe/tea, no premaritial sex, etc).

The LDS are baptized, endowed (oath and handshakes) and married by proxy for the dead. They believe that the dead are on the other side just waiting to become Mormon. No, I’m not kidding.

Endowments are a special ritual where you get a new name, take oaths and learn the secret handshakes that are needed to get into heaven and progress to become a god yourself.

Here are some links (warning it is wild)

http://utlm.org/onlinebooks/changech22a.htm

http://utlm.org/newsletters/no76.htm

http://utlm.org/topicalindexc.htm#Temple%20Ceremony