I'm starting to understand how this is all supposed to work. God offers us everything. He gives us each an opportunity to have all that He has. There is no limit to it, so He can give everything to everybody. We do our best to follow him, but we all mess up. It's okay, He made a way to fix broken messed up people. We just have to believe and act. Two simple steps, over and over again, believe and act, and gradually we improve and grow. If we slip up we start again, but as much as we stay on track, we grow faster. This life isn't about what most people think it is about. It's not about winning. It's about submitting, learning, trusting, enduring, and then being lifted up. Faith and trust give the greatest power and peace.

Letter to Becci for YW lesson

Hey, Becci, My Girl,

I was asked to write you a letter about temple marriage--my testimony of temple marriage

Temple marriage is marriage the way God intends marriage to be.  It is the absolute highest ordinance of the gospel.  It creates a union that is meant to exist through-out eternity.  It gives us crowning, exalted blessings and grants us the opportunity to multiply--or to have children, to create a posterity for ourselves and our fathers and mothers before us.

When we are pure and we enter the holy temple with that special person whom we have chosen to be a partner with us for our life here, and our eternal lives, that is a special day,  a day when angels rejoice.  You go to one of the most perfect and beautiful places on earth, one that has the purest spirit, in your beautiful spotless white clothes, which signify your worthiness and virtue.  You are the princess for the day, about to be made a queen.

It is something to look forward to and to savor and to treasure.

Being married in the temple will be a powerful strength to you during your lifetime.  It will always give you courage.

I love you, my girl!
Mom