Hi, I'm Mark

I love my girls. My wife is beautiful, and I am one lucky Mormon.

About Me

I am married, and have 4 beautiful daughters, ages 2 to 8. I work for a a local company in their Information Technology department . I spend any extra time with my family, doing things like boating, playing games, going on walks, working in the yard or other projects, and just being together. My family, my faith, and my relationship with God is the focus of my life and what brings me the most joy.

Why I am a Mormon

I am a Mormon because of the knowledge and happiness it brings to my life. As I rely the teachines of Jesus Christ, and keep God's commandments, I have received great joy and fullfilment. I belive that our Heavenly Father truly knows us each uniquely, and cares about are well being. I know we lived with Heavenly father before coming to earth, and that he wants us to return to live with him. Through the Book of Mormon, the Bible and other latter day revelations, and personal answers to my own prayers, I feel guided by God in my life, and inspired daily. I know the Joseph Smith was a prophet called by God to restore great knowledge and happiness to God's children. I feel great strength as I study and ponder the truths taught by prophets. I know Jesus atoned for our sins and died for us that we might be forgiven and be able to return to heavenly father. Because of this great gift and knowledge, I know I must help my heavenly brothers and sisters be happy and return to live with God.

Personal Stories

What is hope and what do you hope for?

Hope is believing in something that you cannot experience through any of our normal senses see, hear, touch, etc., any yet you believe that it is true. I have hope in the fact that if I do my best to keep the commandments, repent daily, and seek to become a better person through my daily actions, and service to others, that one day I will be able to return to live with my beautiful family, and also my father in heaven. I hope for nothing more than to be with my family forever. I know that I can only do this through Jesus Christ, and through receiving gospel ordinances by proper authority, such as baptism, and the gift of the Holy Ghost. I am so grateful for the restored gospel. I know that Joseph Smith truly did see God the father and his son Jesus Christ, and that they used him as a prophet to restore truths and knowledge that had been lost.

How I live my faith

I try to live my life in a way that reflects my beliefs. I belive in being kind to others, being non-judmental, forgiving, and giving others the benefit of the doubt. I also belive that we can have fun and enjoy humor in life while doing all good things. Other than being with my own family, I find the greatest joy while working with and helping others. I have also really enjoyed any church assignments where I work with the youth. We live in a troubling time, but the youth have some much strength and can do so much good in the world.

What is faith?

Mark answered...

Faith is not only beliving that God exists, but is also believing that he can and will bless us in our lives with the things that we desire, and ask him for, that are good. Faith also requires action and effort on our part, to do that which is good, working toward all good goals and causes. Though we may not yet see the results of what we desire and work for, faith is knowing that God will bless us in a way that is best for each of us.
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Don answered...

Faith is taking action because of a hope in something. Often the Savior asks of us to do certain things or live in certain ways. When we see a stranger in distress, we stop and help them as Jesus commanded us to in the Good Samaritan Luke 10:25. The act of helping is the evidence of our Faith in Christ. We are asked to tithe. Tithing is evidence of our faith. We tithe in hopes of the promises in Malachi 3:10 that the floodgates of Heaven are open to us.
Faith is when we put our beliefs and hope into action.

Why was a Restoration of the Gospel needed? Haven’t we always had the Bible?

Joshua answered...

The Restoration is needed because of the Apostasy. The apostasy is a time foretold of by the prophet in the Bible Amos. In Amos 8:11-12

" Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."

Amos tells us that there will be a time when the gospel, or "the word of the Lord" will be lost. That time came when Jesus Christ and the Apostles were killed. Even though we still had the bible, there were no prophets or apostles to keep the gospel pure and true. Man was left with their own interpretation of the Bible. As we all know, there are thousands of christian churches all based on the bible, BUT all teach different doctrines. When Christ was on the earth He did not set up thousands of different churches so that there was something different for everyone. He had one church. His church. The prophet Peter tells us that there will be a restitution or a restoration of the gospel, in Acts 3:21

" Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began."

In short, the gospel was lost during the Apostasy and the Restoration brought it back. So, now we have the same gospel that Christ set up when he was on the earth. :)