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Date: July 17, 2017 11:22PM
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 2, p. 170:
"ENDOWMENT OF PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. Now under these conditions, when there is no house of the Lord and the work is urgent, the Lord makes it possible that not only baptism for the dead but also the ordinances that pertain to the house of the Lord may be performed in the wilderness, on a mountain top, or in a lake or a stream of water. I am convinced in my own mind that when the Savior took the three disciples up on the mount, which is spoken of as the 'Mount of Transfiguration,' he there gave unto them the ordinances that pertain to the house of the Lord and that they were endowed. That was the only place they could go. That place became holy and sacred for the rites of salvation which were performed on that occasion."
Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation, Vol. 4, p. 138:
"The Savior had to give an endowment to Peter, James and John, on the Mount of Transfiguration."
Bruce R. McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, Vol. 1, p. 400:
"It appears that Peter, James, and John received their own endowments while on the mountain."
Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah, Vol. 3, pp. 57-58:
"Truly Peter, James, and John, while on this holy mount, received their endowments and were empowered from on high to do all things for the building up and rolling forward of the Lord's work in their day and dispensation."
Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah, Vol. 3, pp. 92-93:
"The sealing power! The apostolic power possessed by Adam and all the ancients; the heavenly endowment enjoyed by Enoch and Abraham and Elijah; the power of the Great God without which man cannot ascend to heights beyond the stars! Such now is resident with all of the Twelve – not with Peter only, to whom it was promised; not with the Chosen Three, who received it by angelic and divine conferral on the mount of Transfiguration, but with all of the Twelve."