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Elder Groberg's book recounted a story of his time as Idaho Falls Temple President and the realization that the temple is the true reality, not the world outside.
Well, Elder Groberg tells a wonderful story, a book he wrote called Refuge in Reality about being the Idaho Falls Temple President and hearing people as they're leaving the temple, breathing a sigh an...
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Elder Groberg's book recounted a story of his time as Idaho Falls Temple President and the realization that the temple is the true reality, not the world outside.
Well, Elder Groberg tells a wonderful story, a book he wrote called Refuge in Reality about being the Idaho Falls Temple President and hearing people as they're leaving the temple, breathing a sigh and saying, well, back to the real world.
And he said, I knew what they meant, but something about that bothered me. And over time, somebody again, oh, back to the real world. And he came out of his office and he said, wrong. You are leaving the real world. Only that which is permanent is real.
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It was mentioned that Elder Groberg wrote this book and shared a story from his time as president of the Idaho Falls temple, about the temple being the real world and not just a temporary escape from the outside world.
he wrote this book called Refuge in Reality and he tells this story and all paraphrases best I can but when he was president of the Idaho Falls temple he said he used to hear people leaving the temple and kind of sying and saying back to the real world and he said I knew what they meant but it kind of bothered me something about that phrase bothered me and I'd hear it again now go back to the real world and he said one time I heard somebody say that I've won up to the front door and I said wrong only that which is permanent is real what happened in here today is permanent and that is real that world out there is temporary that world is going to end this is the real world come back soon to the real world they said okay thanks president and I thought oh what a wonderful way to look at it this is the real world this is the eternal world that's going to last and that world out there that's the temporary one that we're having so many ups and downs in.