"TEMPLE COVENANTS The following statement by Elder Packer is comforting: When you come to the temple and receive your endowment, and kneel at the altar and are sealed, you can live an ordinary life and be an ordinary soul—struggling against temptation, failing and repenting, and failing again and repenting, but always determined to keep your covenants. . . . Then the day will come when you will receive the benediction: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”[ 64] In all of our learning, growing, struggling, and failing, it is necessary to keep both sides of the covenantal “coin” in mind. How we balance and integrate these concepts as we walk through life is something each of us must labor through individually, with help from the Lord. For me, a key to reconciling everything is found in Doctrine and Covenants 97: 8, which reads, “Verily I say unto you, all . . . who know their hearts are honest, and are broken, and their spirits contrite, and are willing to observe their covenants by sacrifice—yea, every sacrifice which I, the Lord, shall command—they are accepted of me.” We need to repent. All of us can and should be seeking to improve and must rely on our Savior’s grace as we stumble along. Overall, we generally have a sense of when our lives are on track and when we are off course. If you want to know your standing before the Lord, seek Him in prayer and ask Him to let you know. If you do so in faith, He will answer you."

- Understanding Your Endowment by Cory Jensen