Editing Washing and anointing (section)

==Administration==
In response to a commandment to gather the saints and to build a house "to prepare them for the ordinances and endowments, washings, and anointings",<ref>{{harvtxt|Smith|1938|p=308}}.</ref> these ordinances were introduced in the Kirtland Temple on January 21, 1836.<ref>{{harvtxt|Roberts|1904|pp=2:379–83}}; {{harvtxt|Buerger|2002}}.</ref>  These modern rites are now only performed for LDS Church members in temples set apart and dedicated for sacred purposes, according to a January 19, 1841 revelation that Joseph Smith stated was from Jesus Christ.<ref name=":3">[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/124.37-38?lang=eng D&C 124:37–38].</ref>