Cleansed Every Whit

The Church of Jesus Christ Fishers of Men:

Missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints went to small town in the Bible belt of Alabama to preach the word of the Lord. They approached the home of a sweet, elderly woman who was in her rocking chair on the porch reading her Bible. The missionaries complimented the woman on her reading the Bible and asked her if she would like to hear a message about Jesus Christ. The woman replied, "Oh YES. I love Jesus. He has saved me." Then the missionaries asked, "Did you know there is more to the gospel than being saved?" 

The woman said she didn't think there was more to the gospel than salvation through Jesus. She said, "I was once a sinner but then I found the Bible and I learned about Jesus and I prayed for the remission of my sins and a warm fire came over my body and I felt cleansed. I knew I was forgiven. I couldn't understand how it was so...but I knew it was! I felt the Holy Spirit tell me to go and submerge myself in the river and when I did, I heard the Lord say, "You are clean every whit and are adopted into my Kingdom!" That night I went to bed and had a dream where my Grandmother came and blessed me and in the dream I saw Jesus and He called me by name and also blessed me."

The missionaries listened and then asked, "Was your Grandmother baptized by one who had authority before she died?" To which the little old woman said, "No, she never did hear the Gospel." The missionaries enthusiastically said, "But did you know that you can't be with your Grandmother again unless she accepts the Gospel and is baptized? And did you know that our church alone has the authority to baptize her via proxy and then she can be saved? And if you get baptized into our church and come to our church each week and pay 10% of everything you earn to the church then in a year you will be able to go to the Temple." 

The little old woman thought for a while. "How long will all this take?" 

"Well," replied the missionaries "it can take a few weeks to listen to the discussions and then a year of waiting to go to the Temple and paying your tithing and such. Then after you go to the Temple you try to go as often as time will allow, perhaps once a week if possible." 

"And then?" she asked with wondering eyes.

"And then, well! That's the best part - you just keep going for the rest of your life. Offering salvation and exaltation to people who have died already." They replied. "If you keep doing this, then one day you  really know you are saved and exalted and can be with Heavenly Father and Jesus in Their Kingdom when you die."

"How will I know for sure if I have received this salvation and exaltation?" she asked.

"Well, that is impossible to know until you get on the other side." they said matter-of-factly.

"What is the end goal of the endowment then? What is the culmination?" she asked.

"The culmination? I mean, well - the culmination is sacred and we can't tell you exactly but essentially the culmination of the endowment is to be cleansed from the blood and sins of this generation and then to enter into the presence of the Lord... 

Wouldn't you like to receive this for yourself?" they asked.