Praying in the temple endowment looks different because when you are in the presence of God, or trying to invoke the presence of God, the scriptures talk about forming circles. In Numbers 11, Moses’s seventy elders surrounded the Tabernacle in order to have God's presence appear before them. The psalmist talks about encircling the altar of the temple to show appropriate veneration. When Christ visited the Americas and taught sacred, unspeakable things, angels surrounded Christ and the children,