How would you describe the room? Is it something like the confirmation room? I heard they never show these rooms during the temple open house. So....I would like to get an idea.
I did a set of proxy w & a when I went through in Denver. It was just part of the locker room, but it was like this little station made out of sheets hanging instead of walls. It was super tight and close, and I felt like I was bumping into the other ladies the whole time. There were 4 little quadrants in each station. You sat in one quad for your washing, moved to the next for your anointing, then to a third to get your garments. The last one was where you waited to get into the washing booth, I think.
I assume they are all similar. But it was so, so crowded and uncomfortable. I don't understand the logic behind it.
So I'm curious to find out if it's different if you go for yourself. The way people talked about a spigot in their stories, I always pictured more of a YMCA shower situation- concrete floor with a drain on it, etc. If it's like what I experienced in Denver- it's different than I pictured.
That's what I remember. I felt claustrophobic. I couldn't wait to get out of there. I felt trapped. It reminded me of a tiny ER. So tiny everyone (all 2 of us) had to stand up. I wanted to slap that old lady for touching me. After all, that's what i'd been taught to do in those situations. Somehow I knew that wouldn't go over well.
The Washing and Anointing Room is an area of small cubicles draped with curtains separating each cubicle, with water font, oil horn or vessel, chair for participant and ordinance instructions.
Here is an image of a typical Washing and Anointing cubicle area or Initiatory Area as it is also called, located on the ground floor of a Mormon Temple in Europe.
Before the last change in 2005, the initiators touched various parts of your body during the process. Some with their hands wandering too near the more intimate areas. Very uncomfortable and for some of the more sensitive patrons, humiliating to say the least. Bat crazy stuff from the fanatical fuc-- at Morg Towers.
Old men in a small confined space, sheets draped like a makeshift hospital..
The old men blandly rushing through the useless words as fast as they could, the entire process feeling very much like an assembly line, with no room for spirituality at all.
TMC should send folks to the humble grandeur of your own (comfortable) home if you need to be washed- as much for their respect as your own convenience, like doctors used to do. That is a private thing. Why share it with fools? SECRET, not "sacred".
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