For Latter-day Saints, having a recommend — a card attesting to the holder’s adherence to church principles and practices — allows a person to enter a temple, which believers consider to be "the House of the Lord."
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints go to the temple to participate in religious ceremonies, including eternal marriages, and to receive instructions on the purpose of life.
Standard questions have been used since about 1922 but have been revised through the years to reflect contemporary concerns and issues.
That happened again in the closing speech of the faith’s 189th Semiannual General Conference on Sunday, when President Russell M.