Hi, I'm Anna

I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and LOVE it!!!

About Me

I have been married for 12 years and have 6 kids. As a stay at home mom I love learning with my kids at home and study right alongside them.

I love to play the piano, read historical novels, play sports, and spend time with my immediate family.

Why I am a Mormon

I was raised in the church and am grateful that my parents and leaders encouraged me to find out and receive my own personal testimony. Faced with experiences as a youth and young adult where I needed to think about what I truly believed I much spent time on my knees. I'm so glad I took the advice of others so I can truly say that God lives. The witnesses of God's love through out my life has been strengthened through each challenging experience. I've not always understood why I have certain trials, but the older I get the more I feel God's hand in my life and have proven over and over to myself that if I strive to make choices and accept God's will I will receive blessings beyond anything I can comprehend.

Personal Stories

How can we develop greater harmony in our homes?

Unconditional Love!!! With all the noise in our world today I find that the more we keep the love through the Spirit of God in our personal lives we will be able to share that with our spouses, children, and those around us. To feel God's love I dedicate my early mornings to scripture study, prayer, and meditation. By getting up earlier in the mornings and preparing myself to see my husband and children I can then choose to be happy, pray for extra strength when I don't feel good either spiritually or physically, and try to create spiritually in my mind what my day will look like.

Once I'm prepared it's a lot easier to prepare my children for their day by starting with a simple family devotional. We use music, prayer, reading God's word, and discussing real life issues that are going on in their lives. Praying together is powerful! God's love is always present when we carefully prepare.

Since I haven't always followed this pattern I've seen a huge difference in my family's life when we do!!!

Please explain the part prayer plays in your life?

I pray all the time!!! I'll never forget my teenage years when I needed to know that God was there. As I felt of His love an overwhelming sense of wanting to choose the right was there. I felt that I was truly a Daughter of God. Since then I use prayer for various reasons. My husband, children, and I love to say gratitude prayers for anything we see: Grandmother who passes away peacefully after a difficult illness, child who overcomes sickness, protection for our home, service that was given to us, service WE could perform as a family, etc.

We also use prayer over our family meals, to invite the spirit before we start our daily devotional, to help us learn what He will in our studies, and any other personal desires we have.

I love the fact that we can try to align our will with that of Heavenly Father's and pray for understanding in all situations.

How I live my faith

I get to accompany the Ward Choir right now! I love hearing the great music and participating in the performances. There are times when I'm asked to accompany the children when they sing on Sundays and that's an uplifting experience!

It's fun to get together for our monthly Women's activities. I'm amazed at the education, encouragement, friendships, and inspiration I receive from attending what I can. As a busy mom I try to make sure I get to these events. I love how everyone's welcome!

Do Mormons only help Mormons?

Anna answered...

Absolutely not. Christ blessed and loved everyone! Christ's love is unconditional! This is how the Church is set up. I love to check out the Humanitarian Efforts all over the world. This would be something to look into!
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Robert answered...

Absolutely not! I grew up in the church and I'd say the number of people that I've helped in the church is significantly smaller than the number of people I've assisted out side the church. This is not to say I don't help my fellow church members. We believe that we are all children of our Heavenly Father. And by that reasoning we are all brothers and sisters. I take that to heart and when I see someone in need I try to help to the best of my ability and training. Organized service projects aside, I've helped several stranded motorists on the side of the road. I give food to people I've seen that appear to be hungry on the side of the road. And for a long time, when I was growing up, my dad and I would do Meals on Wheels for those in need. I've volunteered at soup kitchens more recently. And during times of widely known hurricanes, I've volunteered on clean up crews multiple times. There is a song we have in our church called "Because I Have Been Given Much." I don't want to post the entire lyrics here, but they are available on a popular search engine. That song is very poignant to me and has always been near and dear to my heart. Also being a former Boy Scout, I have tried to uphold both the Scout Law and Oath to this day. I love my Heavenly Father, and I love my fellow man and want to do all I can to help others in any way I can.

What is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' attitude regarding homosexuality and same sex marriage?

Aaron answered...

This issue is one that is rife with misunderstanding to outsiders. First, let me say here that we love and accept all of God's children, regardless of beliefs. That being said, we affirm that the central purpose of life is to make and keep covenants in a family relationship. By extension that means bringing children into the world, born in loving families with both a father and a mother.

We believe that our genders are an essential aspect of our eternal identities, that we were male and female even before we came to this earth. Neither sex is more important than the other; both serve the purpose of God to save His children. Both priesthood and motherhood are essential in the rearing of children.

I myself am unspeakably grateful for the blessing of having both a loving father and mother. They each supported me in different ways, unique to their identity as a man and a woman.