“We do not comprehend what a blessing to them these ordinances are. In the resurrection, Joseph taught Horace Cummings, they will fall at the feet of those who have done their work, kiss their feet, embrace their knees, and manifest the most exquisite gratitude.

Wilford Woodruff who dedicated the Salt Lake Temple taught that “there will be few if any who will not receive the ordinances of the temple when they are performed for them.”15 Elder John W. Taylor, while attending the Manti Temple dedication, concluded that only one in ten would refuse the ordinances. He added, “how many who are kept in prison are not ready to come out?”

What an assurance, when I go with my wife through a magnificent, two-hour experience in the temple, that we may have brought two converts into the kingdom of God. In two hours!” Truman G. Madsen, The Temple and the Atonement