Hi, I'm Kristy Rohrer

I taught Kindergarten, I'm a new Mom, and I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I graduated in Elementary Education at BYU-Idaho in 2008 and taught kindergarten the following year. I am taking a break from teaching to stay at home with our son. I enjoying teaching, walking, cooking and spending time with my husband.

Why I am a Mormon

I am a Mormon because it gives meaning to my life. I know that I am a child of a loving Heavenly Father sent to this Earth to learn and grow. Living by the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brings happiness to my life. I know that Jesus Christ lived and died for me. I know that through Christ's atonement I can return to my Heavenly Father someday and be with my family forever.

Personal Stories

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

Church missions are when young men and young women and couples dedicate their lives for a time to serve God. They serve by giving service to those in need and sharing information about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with others.

Not only do missions bless the lives of the people serving, but it blesses the lives of the missionary. My Husband served a mission in North Carolina. His mission helped him to develop leadership skills and communication. The skills have helped him in his career as well as in our relationship.

My husband currently has been asked to help the missionaries in our area. He helps them to find rides and with any other needs they might have. Often we will have them over for dinner. When they are in our home they bring a special spirit. They encourage us to be better people.

I have not served a mission, but I hope to serve one someday with my husband. I have seen missions bless the lives of many people.

What are you doing to help strengthen your family and make it successful?

Every Monday night we have Family Night a night that we have dedicated to strengthening our family and strengthening our testimonies of Jesus Christ. We will have a short lesson that my Husband or I will prepare and then we will spend time as a family. This has helped us to come closer and I feel it will show our son how important family is as he grows older.

We also have daily scripture study and prayer together. We have noticed that as we pray and read our scriptures together daily that our home feels different. We have feel the spirit and our conversations and actions are more aligned with God's will.

How I live my faith

I am a children's music choirster at church. I teach the children, ages 1 1/2 to 11 years old, at church songs that help them to learn more about Jesus Christ and God.

Are all Mormons required to serve a mission?

Taylor answered...

Quite simply, no. The young men of the church have been strongly encouraged to serve a mission at age 19, and the sisters are able to serve at age 21, but no one is required to serve. We do it because we want to! Who in their right mind would give up two years and pay that's right, missionaries pay their own way to go somewhere they had never been and do all that they do? We serve missions becuase we know that Jesus is the Christ, and we want the happiness that knowledge bring to be available to everyone! So no, Mormons are not required to serve a mission. It's a personal choice to share the happiness and joy they've received from the Gospel.
Trisha answered...

Serving a mission is a priesthood responsibility, and young men are asked to sacrifice two years in order to serve others, gain experience as followers of Christ, and grow in their faith. However, that is a choice each individual has to make on their own and deciding not to go does not affect a person's standing in the Church. But those who do go, men and women alike, usually find that two years is not enough time and wish they could stay longer. Service creates bonds of love for the people you serve. I was unable to go in my young adult years, but I still yearn for the opportunity and look forward to a time when I can serve as a missionary.

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. :)