As the subject says, who thought their new name that everyone received the day you first entered the Holy Castle?

I thought mine was ok -- it was Elizabeth.

Hah! We share the same name! :-)

So . . .if my ex calls out the name of Elizabeth, would you be willing to take my place? ; ' )

When you see me on the other side of the veil, just call me Isaac. It is ok, wife is Eunice, ouch.

Gosh that's my name!

I did.

Levi was Matthew's new name in the bible or some such.

My real name is Matthew.

I thought that was pretty kewl.

Every time I did a session, after being given the new name, I would sit in the chapel and read about the person, ie Noah, Levi, etc so that I wouldn't forget it.

Dummy.

Wait. You can get a new name more than once?

Since I was all wrapped up in it at the time I thought I was cool. Not realizing everyone else going through at the same time was also getting named Solomon.

Don't know since I can't remember mine.

I figured once I forgot that, might as well stop being mormon since all that hard work would be wasted once I died and didn't remeber my new name and couldn't get in and all . . .

Moses >> Charleton Heston >> Ben Hur. Yeah, it was a badass name - off of a list.

Saturday, November 4, 1989.

Washington DC temple.... "Surrender Dorothy!!"

Jesus must have thought I was special because he chose "Peter" for me-- since it was the name of his number one apostle and such. Until, of course, I found out that everyone else that day was given the same goddamn name. God, I was naive.

I suffered doubt, shame, and anxiety over my name: Saul. Because I thought the name was revealed specifically for me, I thought god was communicating to me through that name. I perseverated over what the meaning could be. Did god intend to suggest I was like Saul of Tarsus, the sinner made holy through mighty conversion, or was I like King Saul, the chosen of the lord who became wicked and damned?

Of course, as a constant sinner of the blackest hue, I knew which was more likely. This caused me years if psychic pain, weeping, and ineffectual pleading with god for forgiveness.

It wasn't until I discovered this site in 2009 (after my exodus) that I discovered the names were given in batches. Given the lack of full disclosure on that point, and the implication that the name is revealed, I call this pastoral malpractice.

Did I think it was cool? Eh it was alright Mine was Eli.

But what I DID think was it was special. I had no IDEA that it was the same name as everyone else there that day.


That pissed me off when i found out.

Mine was "David."
Since it's my older brother's real name, I was a bit disappointed.
I initially thought maybe it was some magically special link to bible myth "David," insinuating that the Lard thought I was destined to be a ruler, king, and guy who peeps on naked women from rooftops, then has sex with them, then kills their husbands...but no such luck. Never did any of those things :(

Japheth in the house! Call me Jay for short.

When I found out that it wasn't must me and the original Moroni, I wondered why no one prepared me for that bit of upsetting news. Why did no one tell me what was going to happen when ghawd yelled out, "Hey, Moroni!" and 318,446 faithful Moronis stood up and yelled back, "What?"

It's so lame! JS started a secret club, with secret names, and didn't know what the heck to when he ran out of names.

what do the temple workers think of this secret name business?

Ghawd bless the faithful sheep, who keep their heads down, follow the shepherd and line up so docilely to be shorn, I mean line up for tithing settlement. Sheep are nature's way of keeping grifters fat and happy.

Lazarus.

I suppose it is decent on its own, but I thought it was super cool when I came across a "St Lazarus Cemetery". :)

I like mine,
Dinah is purported to be the second wife of Job after he lost everything in addition to the story in the Bible about her.
Actually, I just checked Wikipedia and it's pretty interesting that her name is a new name.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah



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I liked mine. Still like it. Jesse. Which is my name on rfm, obviously.

Mine is Daniel, and I got it in 1968, about 3 weeks before I went on my mission.

I went with my parents that day, and I do remember that someone told me to always remember it. I don't think my dad or mom told me to remember it so it must have been someone in the temple.

And of course, I completely forgot it and the next time I went to the temple, which was while I was in the mission training in Provo(3 long months) we went to a Saturday session in Manti. I was embarrassed that I forgot it but someone in the temple was able to find out for me.

After that, I remembered it by always thinking of "Daniel in the lions den."

I did. It was one of the more pleasant aspects of the temple ceremony, among being personally violated by inappropriate touching and threats to be murdered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyhLNqOqqPA

I have NEVER liked the name Lucy. Even my ex said, "what????" when I gave him THAT name through the veil.

It was a CLUE. I grew up being taught it was God's special name for me. It was one of the things I was most looking forward to. What a joke? I wasn't sure I ever liked my own name growing up, but my parents did a far better job of naming me than God did. I like my name now--Colleen. It was my mom's best friend's name and my sisters' names suck.

Mine was Olivia. I liked mine.

So what did I get? Michael. ZZZZzzzz....

Susan?! Who else has susan? Not very biblical or Mormon at all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_%28Book_of_Daniel%29

As the story goes, a fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the garden unless she agrees to have sex with them.

She refuses to be blackmailed and is arrested and about to be put to death for promiscuity when a young man named Daniel interrupts the proceedings, shouting that the elders should be questioned to prevent the death of an innocent.

I had a hard time not to laugh when I got mine. The old lady pronounced it too funny. she said: Abbì-geil and "geil" in german means horny, wicked, .... like that.
Otherwise I think Abigail sounds nice - but it isnn't unique and chosen after my personality or character and 3576 people who went for their first endowment that day in March got the same name.



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Mine is my middle name. Aaron.

I have biblical proportions.

Elijah checking in. A real badass prophet. You don't screw with Elijah in the OT. And he rides in a shiny chariot at the end.

Elijah calls down fire from heaven. Tom Monson wiggles his ears.

for daring to say that while my assigned temple name (Hannah - which I did not reveal, of course) was OK, I preferred to think of it in the original Hebrew form, which is more like Chana (the "ch" being like the German in "ach").

The bishop had a fit and declared that I was not allowed to even THINK of my temple name in any other form than the original designation.

Ummm, where does it say THAT in the Bishop's Handbook???

My temple name was my father's middle name.

(I was not BIC; my dad is Jewish.)

Barnabas Boner here! Coolest of the lot.

Reading all of your comments has me curious. What is the point of being given a new name in the temple? And does everyone really not know that they are given out in batches?

Hated it. Now when I hear it I'm reminded of the time I pretended to slit my own throat.

Husband forgot my new name and used to call me "Vickie" in his mind.

We didn't take it too seriously.

I got Emma. I was so disappointed, as Emma wasn't faithful enough to go west with the saints. How brainwashed was I?!

Catholics get to choose their own names for their church confirmations (it has to be a religiously significant name, usually a saint's name.) Mine is Catherine. I wonder why Mormons don't get to choose their temple names? One more aspect of control?