Can something explain to me why people say "taking out my endowments?"

Shouldn't you say "I received my endowments?"

I always said I "received" my endowment(s) in the temple instead of I "took out" my endowment(s) in the temple. It seemed to make more sense.

Is it because, even though your received them in the temple, you left the temple physically so you, in a way, took them with you?!

I just don't get why everyone says it that way.

I took out my endowments.
They were a lousy date.
Always wanting to do secret handshakes, threatening me with death gestures like cutting my throat, and when the waiter asked what they wanted to eat, they said, "Pay lay ale!" It was embarrassing.

So I dumped 'em. Good riddance, I say.

I took out my endowments with the rest of the day's trash.

For those that many not know--endowment is used in the LDS temples to mean making a very serious commitment, promise between you and Heavenly Father/God.
It carries blessings and punishments. The endowment session has several changes in the ceremony/rituals over the years.

Somewhere along the line, the vernacular became : taking out my endowments. Generational Mormons tend to use their own specific words and phrases that developed over the years.

Many words and phrases are specific to the religion, including made up words like: priestcraft.

Addendum: as a young woman convert, newly married,living in Utah on BYU campus housing, I was bewildered by a lot of the things the Mormons said. I'd have to ask my husband to translate! :-)



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"We and each of us do covenant and promise that we will not reveal any of the secrets of this, the First Token of the Melchizedek Priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign or penalty. Should we do so, we agree that our bodies be cut asunder in the midst and all our bowels gush out."

Yeah, lets gush OUT our endowments!

This came from Richard Packham's webpage for the c1930s ritual.



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I still can't believe they did that shit the whole time without me knowing it.

That's right, Elders, just whip out what you were endowed with. ;-)

You can be arrested for taking your endowment out in public.

Yes. Please keep that trench coat buttoned.

I remember being told to use the terminology "receive my endowments" rather than "take out my endowments",
because apparently (as babyloncansuckit said) you don't "take out" your endowment.

A new article in LDS Living says the church would like people to stop saying " I took out my endowments " rather "received my endowments " so I guess they're being reminded again.

"... we agree that our bodies be cut asunder in the midst and all our bowels gush out." (old-timey temple talk.)

An old geezer on a revision board was tasked to water down some of the ghastlier phrases in former ritual passages.

He decided to replace "gush out" with "take out" and it caught on for both endowments and disembowelments.

So now we say "Take them bloody endowments out!"

When I was active in the church, another common phrase was to "go through the temple": "Have you gone through the temple yet?" "No, I'm still drinking coffee, but when I give that up, I hope to go through the temple."

That phrase probably arose from the fact that in the older temples each part of the ritual was performed in a different room, and the "company" of patrons moved from room to room, advancing in light and nollidge, "through the temple."

Do they still move through the rooms in any of the temples?

Put them back in!

It's a reference to fast food.

Schwing!!

I've always reacted to "Mormonspeak" with a WTF?

Before I go to bed, I stop and prepare lunch for the following day. I open the fridge to see the various items with which the Lord hath blessed me. Ah... Leftover penne with bacon, tomatoes, and zucchini. Quite the endowment. I remove this endowment from the fridge, and put it in Tupperware, which is actually Rubbermaid, then grate some cheese and put it in a Ziplock bag. I grab some Australian Tim Tams--now available at Kroger--and put them in a Ziplock bag. I add a few more endowments such as Halo clementines, and, for a mid-day snack, maybe some Multigrain Tortilla Chips (available at Costco in a giant bag); I scoop out some Sabra hummus and put it in a small Tupperware container (well, actually it's a small Rubbermaid container) to accompany the Multigrain Tortilla Chips.

At lunch, I take out some of my endowments with which the Lord hath blessed me, and eat them--yea, here a little, there a little. At some point, I take out the Tupperware--actually Rubbermaid--containing the main portion of my endowment, and heat it in the microwave. Yea, I am blessed for it. At this time I make a sacred covenant with Heavenly Father that I will return to the kitchen often to take out my endowments.



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You mentioned Rubbermaid too many times--I think you must have a porn addiction.

To the bishop's office!!

I'm just following an urge to be specific.

If I were to take out my endowments in public I would be arrested.

Yes please... the Q12 can have a circle jerk (Oh NO, yelled out in the best Mr Bill voice) to see who's endowments are bigger, lol. What a flaccid event... these morons and their endowments are tiny (just like their minds) and are shriveling further as each day passes (just like TSCC membership).