Hi, I'm Marco

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About Me

today I have 2 children and I am married to a wonderful woman for 6 years so far. I am from Peru. we got married at the Peruvian temple 10 years after I served in a mission. I think I am 36 by now. We are now trying to teach our children the principles we learnt from God since we were young. Because, honestly, our parents did the best but the things I know now. For sure came from God.

Why I am a Mormon

I am a member of the church of Jesuschrist of latter day saints since I was 15 years old. I learnt about the church in a Place called Iquitos in the Peruvian Jungle. I wanted to know things about life and my personal circunstances. Our Heavenly Father, I know for sure that this is true now, answered my questions and that keeps me going.

Personal Stories

Can you think of a specific challenge in your family that Gospel Principles helped overcome?

I never knew what is to live with a family I did not have the chance to have one. My parents never lived together for too long and after they got their fourth baby they got divorced. when I learnt about eternal families. I cried because I wasn't going to be able to make it happen with my parents and 3 siblings but I peaceful thought came to my mind when I was 17 years old. Someday if I am faithfull enough to the things I was learning I would be able to give the gift of a family to my own children.

How I live my faith

Last time an old man needed to be taken to the hospital. like a month ago I think. I did it. there in the hospital. Public hospital, I share Liahonas and fliers about the church to people who were taking care of their relatives at the emergency area where I took this fellow brother of mine. that day I prepared lunch for my family and we watch videos of the church at the end of the day. It was a wonderful Sunday I ended up exhausted.

What are some things that tell to you there is a God?

Marco answered...

My own presence in this world. I always wonder since I was I a child why I am here. I started to have those thoughts since I was almost 8 years old I think. One night watching at the moon I learnt that someone mightier than the black space was taking care of me. 7 years later I learnt about the church. When missionaries taught me about Joseph Smith experience, I knew I had to become a member of the church. I was 15 years old and I had already read most parts of the bible by then.
David H. answered...

I identify with Fyodor Dostoevsky, who once wrote: "It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." I respect people who find it difficult or impossible to believe, because of the incongruity of so much unjustifiable hurt and pain in the world or because the affirmative evidence for God's existence does not seem compelling. But yet I believe. I believe in a God who is powerful, knowledgeable, loving and good. I see God in the heavens and earth. I see God in the principles of physics, evolution and natural selection, psychology, engineering, mathematics, the arts and the humanities, among others. I see God in the multitude of faith (or nonfaith) traditions throughout the world and among all peoples, giving meaning, purpose and direction to God's children and creations. Yes, there is much inexplicable hurt, pain and injury in the world, and yes, God's respect for our free will and freedom to believe requires that the evidence for God be noncompelling. I do not pretend to know easy answers; I look forward one day to receiving explanations or understanding of those tough questions. In the meantime, I am grateful for the whisperings from God's spirit and for occasional experiences that, to me, seem like "postcards from God", confirming to me God's love and care for me and for all creation. I have never seen God personally, but I have experienced God and I have met God's children and seen God's creations.

What is the Book of Mormon?

Ben answered...

We believe in a loving Father in Heaven who desires all of his children to have His precious word. "Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?" (2 Nephi 29:7).

Of course, with any thing concerning God, it is important to find out, personally, if the work is true. What better source can we trust than God Himself? Through prayer we can know, independently of anyone else, where the truth lies concerning any matter.

In the introduction to the Book of Mormon we read: "We invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts the message it contains, and then to ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ if the book is true. Those who pursue this course and ask in faith will gain a testimony of its truth and divinity by the power of the Holy Ghost." I testify that this pattern of revelation is true. If we take the time to study it out in our minds, ponder upon the truth and ask God, in faith with desire to act upon our answer, that we will receive. He has answered me, and He will answer you when you ask in faith.