Hi, I'm Darwin

My early years were spent in Utah but I now live with my family in Arizona. I'm a husband, father, dentist and I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I am the father of seven and husband to the most beautiful, wonderful woman on the planet. We live in an urban setting where I work as a dentist and where my kids help me garden & raise chickens in our backyard. I enjoy hiking in a nearby mountain preserve and spending time with my family.

Why I am a Mormon

While I was born into a Latter-day Saint family, my testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ has grown throughout my life. I have come to know that Our Heavenly Father really does know each of us personally and that He hears and answers heartfelt prayer. Through prayer, we can repent and feel the peace that only comes through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I have a testimony that the scriptures are our road map and that they are spiritual food. Both the Bible and The Book of Mormon testify of Jesus Christ. I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior and that He is Love! I have a testimony of revelation through the Holy Spirit. I know that Jesus Christ has restored His Church in modern times through living prophets. I know that Joseph Smith was an instrument in God's hands to bring His Church to all of His children in these last days. I know that Thomas S. Monson is a living prophet for our time!

To be Mormon is to be HAPPY!

Personal Stories

Can you talk about the missions of the Church and your participation in them?

As a member of Christ's true Church I try to accomplish His purposes.

We believe that Jesus Christ is a God of Love to ALL of Our Heavenly Father's children. Because of that, we regularly share the gospel with those around us. We want them to feel the peace and happiness that comes to us as we live His great plan of happiness. That is why we invite our friends to meet with our missionaries to discuss how they too can enjoy the joy of living Our Father's plan.

Many of Our Father's children won't have the opportunity to hear the gospel during this mortal phase of our growth and progression. That is the reason that God has placed special buildings that we call "Temples" around the earth. We have one not far from us in Mesa, AZ. We go there frequently to perform ordinances there for those who have already passed on to the spirit world. The Temple is a place of peace. At present there are some 140 temples throughout the earth where members can go to feel the peace of Christ and feel close to those who have passed on before.

During this life we spend time trying to become more like our Savior. We want to learn to love like He Loved! That is what the Church is all about. God's Love! It's how we improve our lives, day by day and week by week. God knew that we would make mistakes, so the Church is like a hospital for sinners. There we can renew our baptismal covenants and make commitments to improve our lives. When we attend regularly, we feel God's love and peace, and over time we can see how God has changed us.

I know that as we repent and seek to know Our Savior that we can be filled with His love and peace.

It's all true... all of it!

How I live my faith

As a family we spend time together. We have a night every week set aside where we sing together & study the gospel together. We read scriptures together each day and pray together. We plan for the future together in council with one another.

I serve as one of the Gospel Doctrine teachers in Sunday School. I also teach Principios del Evangelio on Thursday evenings for the full time missionaries and those who are investigating the Church and speak Spanish.

What do Mormons believe happens to us after we die? What do Mormons believe about life after death?

Darwin answered...

I have no doubt that we live after we die. I recently had a friend who was a young father pass away. When I knew that he was on life support I prayed fervently that he would live. During that prayer I felt a strong feeling of peace come over me that everything would be alright. Well, the next morning he passed on. I wondered at that peaceful, spirit filled feeling and while praying I felt it again. At his funeral I came to know that Heavenly Father had something very important for him to do on the other side of the veil. I knew that even though it might be difficult, his wife and four children would be O.K. without him. I know that he is preparing things for his family on the other side and also serving others. There, he awaits the rest of us as we complete our missions here on earth. Someday because of Jesus Christ we will all be resurrected to live with our families in love and peace, forever.

Why do some call Mormonism a cult?

Tember Skye Harward answered...

Mormon's are viewed as a cult by some because we do not adhere to the fundamental creeds established by the other Christian churches, such as the Nicene or Athanasian Creeds, and their view of the Godhead. Latter-day Saints are viewed by other Christians just like the early Christians were viewed by the Jews and Romans of the time, which was as a cult, because they strayed from what seemed to them orthodox Judaism. Much like the Pharisees and Sadducees, who viewed orthodoxy through the lens of the rules laid out in the rabbinical law and their interpretation of the Law of Moses, the Christians of today view orthodoxy through the lens of the creeds that were established hundreds of years after the death of Christ under the opinion and counsels of men.