mine? Jethro. my sisters was Pheobe. i think she got hers when the tv show "friends" was on air. lame lame lame lame.

i even went so far to cross reference who jethro was, apparently he coached moses on how to liberate authority. yeah sure he did. makes me think more of beverly hillbillies

Alma. The first time. The second time they gave me a different name, which I forgot.

The only Almas I've ever met for real were women.

If you know when a person went through the temple for the first time, the following link will tell you their temple name. Since 2013 there have been two lists, so you have a 50/50 shot of getting it right the first time.

http://www.fullerconsideration.com/templenameoracle.php

Hey, for a little while, did you think you were the only one with that 'secret' name?

Luke

Elizabeth

I was donned Sarah, Sara, Sarai....take your pick on the spelling as that was not shared with moi.

I was happy with this random nomiker as I liked the name, and then, even liked it more when I learned that the original name Sarai means princess and that she was beautiful. I had dreams of being just that. I am not ugly but not quite up to the status of a beautiful princess.

It's Canta Caca.

in my native language it means "woman who eats shit and smiles"

you sing that shit, baby!

Gideon... I remember being terrified that I wouldn't remember it because if I didn't I wouldn't be able to make it into heaven... The Temple worker said I could remember it because "Gideon, like the old Bible". He then told me that if I forgot it, a temple worker could look it up. I envisioned a huge database full of names linked to people who had gone through the temple. How naive I was...

Ha ha, envisage a long line of people at the help desk, a short distance away from the holy gates of hand shakes. An harrassed looking angel looking up forgotten temple names.

Mine was Naomi.. it means pleasant/sweet. I didn't really like it. Ruth's mother-in-law who was bitter about how god had screwed up her life.

Never had one but I'd insist on Eeyore.....

RB

I want to meet you one day and hear you say, "Thanks fer noticin' me..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcwNJg5mw8U

That would be my pleasure!

RB

Jacob....lol fucking Jacob.

another Jacob here.

I knew IMMEDIATELY that this wasn't just my name. There was something wrong, but I didn't know what the truth was for a few years after.

This bothered me for years. I didn't like it and I thought that if God knew me, this is not the name he would give me. My parents did a much better job of naming me than God did.



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God loves Lucy!

I never went through the temple, so missed out on all that - whew! But it's sad to think that something as important as your NAME FOR ALL ETERNITY was just a name on a list on a schedule. The only way you can make meaningful is to imagine that God SENT you to the temple on THAT DAY so that you'd get that particular name. Otherwise, it was pretty much thoughtlessly assigned to you. Lucy sounds a lot like Lucifer. I wouldn't have liked that one.

I heard about it. I wanted to hear God's name for me. What a shocker! It was one of those moments. My ex at the veil said, "What?????" He loves Lucy, as does my daughter. I don't.

I had to make it to the temple. I had to see it for myself; otherwise, I would have spent my life wondering what I had missed out on. I wouldn't have believed anyone who told me otherwise. That's just how my mind works. I was going to be the best temple attender EVER. I did 4 endowments and did sealings once (which was really bizarre given that it wasn't my husband that did the sealings with me). I never went back after the sealings. My ex had to BEG me to go that time just to see the new movie back in 1990.

I could see Lucille, or Lucia for a 'temple' name.

Lucy does not sound like a celestial name at all, not for a future goddess or queen!

It reminds me of the movie The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Her name was Lucy, until Rex Harrison met up with her.

Then it became "Lucia." Because she was a heavenly creature who deserved a heavenly name.

:)



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Did you know that St. Lucy is the patron saint of the blind?

to an exmo, Lucy could be everyone's temple name ...

Olivia

Joan

Simeon, I was okay with it.

Maroni. I'm not sure it was Captain Maroni or the more lame maroni. It seems so stupid looking back on it all.

Come to think of it, wasn't the whack-a-do idiot who took over the state park in Oregon named Maroni?

Charlotte...I thought it was a beautiful name and was very happy with it

Mine too.

Tabitha... bleeh!

Nephi.

Emma. And yeah, I totally thought it was a sign and that I was special and the only one. Gag.

Mine was Louise. When my husband-to-be first heard me say it, he looked shocked, gulped, and said, "could you repeat that?"

Of course I knew why. He had been engaged to the same young woman for 8 years before he met me and proposed. The only person who kept him from marrying her was his girlfriend's mother, who vehemently opposed their marriage. Her name? Louise.

He told me he that for a split second he *almost* felt it was a sign from Louise that marrying me was the right choice. (He doesn't believe in signs, though.)

wondercat

Abigail.
For the longest time, I was totally freaked out because I forgot it for a few years. I was convinced I was gonna get to heaven and not remember it and be screwed.

SMGDH.

HANNAH!!! Crap, now I'm going to hell...

;o)

Moses Mothafucker

Miriam.

Deborah. How boring. I want to be Jezebel.

Abinadi

Caleb!

Or maybe he said "Kay Love" or "Que La Bamba

OR "Key Lab". Holy shit, he was dying and was trying to tell me where the key to the secret temple lab was. :)

I wouldn't tell them what my middle initial 'G' stood for...hence:


-geezus

David.
Which at the time(1978) made me wince, since that was my brother's real (non-temple) name.
Apparently it hasn't been used as much as some others...go figure.

Let's see, forgot the name, forgot the date I went through the temple pre-mission, hell I don't even remember the month so I guess I can't look it up. It was 20 years ago. I guess I'm cursed to never enter mormon heaven aka hell.

Timothy

Even as a TBM it seemed strange and troubling to me that Timothy would be a name for a Nephite in the Book of Mormon. Jeez... the non-sense I once believed.