I AM NOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR ANY ONE ELSE'S TEMPLE

Including the following:

1. My children
2. My spouse
3. My neighbors
4. My parents
5. My grandparents
6. Any other person

 As a temple president, I am accountable for what happens within my temple, that is, what I see, think, feel and do I am not accountable for what other people do within their temples.

I DO HAVE A STEWARDSHIP ACCOUNTABILITY

There is a big difference in carrying out a stewardship, as compared to accepting responsibility for what my children decide to think, feel and/or do. When a child is caught stealing, he is accountable for that choice not the parent. How the parent handles this situation falls under stewardship accountability, as well as what the parent has taught the child.

  WHAT ARE MY STEWARDSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES?


 1. Teach my children. "And again, inasmuch as parents have children in Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach them not to understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hNoands, when eight years old, the sin be upon the head of the parents....And they shall also teach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord." (D&C 68:25-28)

 2. To bring them up in light & truth. "But I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth." (D&C 93:40)

 3. To influence them in righteousness. "No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned: By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile. Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love towards him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy:" (D&C 121:41-43)