*****: In the name of Jesus Christ, and by the authority of the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood and the office of Patriarch that I hold, I lay my hands upon your head and give you your patriarchal blessing from your Father in Heaven. He gives you this blessing, *****, that it may be a source of strength, and guidance, and comfort, and peace to you as you live and grow in your life on this earth. I bless you that you will read and ponder the words of His blessing very carefully, by the spirit.

*****, I bless you throughout your life that you will strive to grow closer and closer to your Father in Heaven, and to your Savior Jesus Christ. You will humbly and diligently seek for Them, and as you do this with your whole heart and mind and soul, you will surely find Them, and you will surely invite Them to dwell completely and deeply in the heart of your soul throughout your life. Your Father in Heaven and your Savior Jesus Christ will be with you every moment, *****, to guide you and protect you with their love. They will help you find joy and comfort daily. You will find true peace in your life, even in the hard and difficult and painful times you will occasionally experience here on earth.

I bless you, *****, that you will deeply ponder the meaning, and the purpose, and the power of God's holy temple in your life. In the future you will come to deeply reverence and cherish the sacred ordinances and covenants of your own personal sacred temple endowment. Also in the future you will come to experience the true joy and the great power of your own personal sacred temple sealing. These sacred ordinances will be cosmic forces for good in bringing you and your eternal family home to Christ, and home to your Father in Heaven. These great and powerful blessings, *****, will be at the center of your day-to-day living, not only on this earth, but also in the eternities to come.

Your love for the holy temple, *****, and your love for your dear eternal family in all of its generations, will lead you to do much temple work for your deceased ancestors. You will help provide baptisms, confirmations, washings, anointings, clothings, endowments, and sealings for your ancestors. These ordinances will greatly strengthen their eternal lives. You will spend much time, *****, in the holy temple. You will also strive to seek out the histories and the genealogies of your ancestors, and to take their dear names to the holy temple so they can receive all of these sacred ordinances and covenants. I promise you, *****, in the name of the Lord, that all of the things you help bind on Earth for your ancestors, will be truly bound for them in heaven as well, and will provide great meaning and great power in their lives. You will truly be guided in this work, *****. Many, many doors will be opened for you through the power and the revelations of the Holy Spirit. I bless you, *****, with a sure understanding that without us and our ancestors working diligently together on these things, neither we nor they would be able to become all that our Father in Heaven desires us to be. Such is the great power and meaning and purpose and importance of God's holy temple in your life. You, *****, and your ancestors, and your future descendants, will prove to be a true and powerful eternal family in the hands of the Lord. Your eternal family will strengthen God's work in many places, and in many ways, and throughout many, many generations.

*****, you come to this earth of the spiritual seed of ancient prophets, including Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph. You are of the lineage of Ephraim, Joseph's beloved birthright son. I bless you that you will come to deeply understand and cherish the sacred mission given by God to the lineage of Ephraim in the latter days. That great responsibility is to gather scattered Israel from the four quarters of the earth, and to bring them home to their Savior, and to His church. I bless you, *****, that you will seek the guidance of the Lord to know precisely how He would have you fulfill your portion of the great mission of the lineage of Ephraim throughout your life, from now until you leave this earth.

*****, you have the opportunity to serve as a Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Your love for God's other spirit children on this Earth will lead you to desire to help them. Your Father in Heaven asks you to serve a mission. You will be sent to a place where there will be many people who will respond to the testimony you will frequently bear, and to your personality, and to your knowledge of the spirit. You will be a powerful example to your fellow missionaries, and to the people whom you will teach and bring home to Christ. You will have the strength you need and all the gifts of the spirit and of the physical body, and all the knowledge you need to serve the Lord well as a missionary.

*****, your Father in Heaven sends you to this earth also to learn and to grow. I bless you with the sure knowledge that learning is eternal. I bless you that you will seek to learn all that you possibly can on this earth. I bless you that you will seek to obtain all of the schooling it is possible for you to get on this earth. I bless you that your temporal and spiritual learning will be a source of strength, and wisdom, and guidance to many souls on this earth. I bless you with the guidance of the Lord in knowing how to use your knowledge to strengthen God's work, and to bless the lives of many many souls in this life, and also the souls of those whom your Father in Heaven will have you serve in the eternities to come.

You will experience, *****, your necessary share of trials, difficulties, and even pains in this life. Your trials will ultimately prove to be among the greatest blessings of your life. Overcoming your trials will bring great strength and great wisdom to your soul. I bless you that you will come to recognize your trials as precious gifts from God to help you grow mightily and to become more like Him.

*****, you will also experience much joy and fulfillment and gratitude in your life. The time will come when you and a beloved young man will establish your own personal eternal family. The two of you will be endowed and sealed together for time and for all eternity in the temple of our God. You will bring children into this world, and you will raise them unto the Lord. You will teach them to love the spirit, and to love the scriptures, and to love their eternal family, and to serve others with great strength and willingness. You will pass on to your children all of the wonderful things you have learned from your own dear mother and father, and all the spiritual things you will learn from year to year throughout your life, to help your children be strong in the gospel, and to help them ultimately return to their Father in Heaven and to their Savior Jesus Christ. It will be a wonderful and beautiful and challenging experience to raise your family. You will ultimately bless many other souls because of your sacred service to your family.

*****, you will have many important callings in the church which will require you to teach in very spiritual ways, and to lead others in very spiritual ways. I bless you that you will have the guidance of the Lord with you every moment, to know how to feel, and what to do, and what to say, to successfully, and powerfully, and lovingly fulfill your church callings throughout your life.

Now, *****, I seal upon you all of the blessings, and gifts, and promises given to you by your Father in Heaven in your patriarchal blessing. The fulfillment of all these blessings depends upon your faithfulness, and your love for God, and your love for his other spirit children on this earth. You will truly be found worthy, and prepared, *****, to dwell with your Father in Heaven, and with your Savior Jesus Christ, and with your blessed eternal family in all of its dimensions, in the Celestial Kingdom of our God. Oh, *****, the joys, and the blessings, and the opportunities that await you are beyond description. I bless you that you will strive to do all things the Lord would have you do.