Like many others on this list, I have also waited months and even years for the male endowments to be completed.   If the male endowments are not done, then the sealing to spouse and sealing to parents ordinances cannot be completed.   It is not even a matter of temple patrons trying to complete their own submissions because we depend on others to help. For instance, if we are sisters, we need help completing ordinances for our male ancestors. It works the other way around too.   We can submit our own ancestral families to the temple files but who is going to complete the ordinances?   It is truly a matter of the temples not being frequented by patrons as they should be.   This is not a criticism at all but it is the reality of the situation.   I am not pointing fingers at anyone because we all struggle with attending the temple as often as we want but I know that each member of the Church would make a difference if he/she attended the temple even one or two more times per year.   The changes in doing temple file names create a challenge to some of us who used to receive assistance in our local temples. Now we are supposed to have assistance from our families, wards, stakes, but not directly from the temples.   Some of us do not have huge wards/stakes with monthly temple trips or stake temple days.   Some of us are fortunate to have family members who are members of the Church.   Some of us simply struggle to complete even our own four-generation names.   So itreally does matter if we attend the temple as often as we can.   It is wonderful when we catch the eternal perspective of temple work and see how we make a difference to individuals and families one person at a time.   While our own family's temple ordinances might be under control, there are members of our extended families, as well as for members of our wards and stakes, who need us to help them complete the ordinances for their own families.   Like the story of the man tossing the starfish back into the sea, our meager efforts can make a real difference to our own ancestors and the ancestors of others as we attend the temples and complete the sacred ordinances, especially the endowments which take so much longer to do than any other ordinance.   Each time we complete a temple session we are making a difference to one individual (endowment) or many individuals (other ordinances).   Mary Scott