Proxy
- A living member who stands in the place of a deceased person to receive a temple ordinance on their behalf.
- The principle of performing saving ordinances vicariously for the dead.
Latter-day Saints believe that saving ordinances — baptism, confirmation, the endowment, and sealing — must be performed on earth by embodied people. So the living act as proxies for ancestors who died without them, being baptized, confirmed, endowed, or sealed in the deceased person's name. The ordinance only offers the deceased the option to accept it in the next life; because individual agency is central, nothing is forced. Doing work "by proxy" is the heart of the Church's temple and family history effort.