Hi, I'm Lindy

I am a songwriter with seven children. I love to sing and meet new people. I'm blessed to be a Mormon.

About Me

I grew up in southern California as the oldest of 11 children. I grew up in a very happy Latter Day Saint home. I have good memories of my family singing around the piano while my mother played. I thought she was amazing. She could play anything.

After graduating, I focused my efforts on being a mother and taking care of my children. I thought being a mother would be easy for me, especially with my experience of being the oldest of so many. The Lord saw fit to humble me right away! My first child was a challenge.

Through the years, I've had the opportunity and challenge of dealing with many mental illnesses such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression and many other mental illnesses. Thankfully I haven't been diagnosed with any of these things myself, but I have been regularly involved with comforting others who are.

One of the ways I've learned to deal with this, is through music. I compose piano songs that help me to de-stress. I also write vocal music that lifts and inspires me. I share much of my music on my website: www.kerbymusic.org. One of the greatest blessings I have in my life is when someone downloads some sheet music from my website, and after playing it, they share with me their feelings of how the song touched them, or gave them some peace and comfort.

Why I am a Mormon

I'm a Mormon because it brings me tremendous joy!

I know I haven't been brain washed or forced to become the way I am. I've seen others around me. I've watched as several of my friends have tried to be successful as musicians. Some of them have thought that if they could just be successful, they could find happiness. From my experience, if they do find it, it's short lasting. The only happiness that lasts is in living the gospel.

Even with all the difficulties I've been through, and with the chaos of having seven children in my home- and it is quite loud at times!- I find peace and joy everyday. I find it in music. I find it in my prayers when I pray to Heavenly Father, and I find it in the knowledge that everything I'm going through is for a reason. There is so much to be thankful for. The gospel gives me that strength. It makes all the hard things worthwhile!

Personal Stories

What has helped develop greater harmony in your home?

Every Monday night, we hold something called Family Home Evening. It's a time we spend as a family sharing talents, reading stories, singing, eating, and learning more about the gospel. Our kids love this tradition. We also read scriptures early in the morning together. Organized time that's planned regularly together has really helped to strengthen our home.

In the last few years, we have also started having "Personal Time" on Sundays. Each week we rotate through the members of our family so that we can each spend individual time with another member of our family. This has been a wonderful blessing for our family, to strengthen relationships within our home.

How I live my faith

Because of my talents, I get many opportunities to help with the music programs of the church. Right now I get to be the Choir Director -my favorite calling- and also the piano accompanist for our Children's program in Primary.

I love to be involved. As a mother, I could see myself staying home all the time, and not getting out very often. I look forward to the opportunities I have to visit people, go to church, and serve whenever I get a chance. Serving is one of the sure fire ways to being happy! I have found that to be very true!

What do Mormons believe is the purpose of life?

Lindy answered...

Mormons believe that we came from a premortal world in which we lived with our Heavenly Father. He loves us very much and wanted us to have the opportunity to become like Him. Life on Earth helps us to do that. We have the opportunity to have families, gain knowledge, and prove that we want to live with our Heavenly Father again. This is a testing ground. We know that we will gain eternal life, a gift that we know to be worth all the hardships of this life, as we follow the commandments and live the covenants that we make throughout our lives. Living this way also brings us joy and happiness as we see a bigger purpose to our life.
Aileen. answered...

This question started my whole spiritual quest, so it is only most appropriate for me to now answer it.

Mormons believe that we were chosen by the Heavenly Father in the spirit world pre-existence to receive a physical body and to come to Earth to our specific mother and father. We agreed, and we essentially are fighting on Heavenly Father's "side" in the war with Lucifer. It is our spiritual "job" in this world to live a certain way, to use our agency to choose between good and evil, in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father's only son, whom He sacrificed to allow for our atonement to allow for our spiritual progression.

Mormons believe that while here on Earth, we should learn and live more like our Heavenly Father. This is our spiritual quest which is accomplished through our choices. We marry and build our own family, and by following the Scriptures and living accordingly, we receive access to the Temples where eternal ordinances are performed individually and together as a family.

We can be with our family forever, after death, joined together in Heaven, with Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father. We have greater peace in this life and eternal joy in the life to come. This is the purpose of our life here.

Before I understood this and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, my life was reasonably happy but devoid of purpose. Something was missing. I felt incomplete.

Now, I have peace. My soul is soothed.

Do you really believe there is a prophet like Moses alive today?

Michael answered...

Sure I do. People have been deceived into believing that there are no prophets throughout biblical history. The first thing the adversary does when there is a prophet on the earth is to try to convince you that there are no such things or that the time has passed.

Think about it...when Noah preached to the people and prophesied that the flood was coming, they laughed at him. Even amongst the Jews, they disregarded and/or imprisoned Isaiah and Jeremiah because they prophesied that Israel would be carried away captive into Babylon.

I believe that the thing that one must overcome in order to believe that there are prophets alive today is get over the mindset that tells you that prophets have to be splitting the Red Sea or calling down fire from heaven in order to be considered as such. For every great miracle wrought by a biblical prophet there are many more who simply preached about the coming Messiah. Think of the prophets like Joel, Amos, Hosea and Habbakuk. These were prophets sent by God, but they were "boring" because they weren't performing miracles or commanding armies. The people disregarded their counsels at their spiritual peril.

Let us not repeat their error by not believing that prophets can't exist today. Let's instead get on our knees and receive our own personal revelation about the ones here amongst us.