Hi, I'm Ammon

I was born and raised in Salt Lake City Utah. I enjoy expanding my mind through continual study. I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I enjoy talking politics and economics, playing video games with my children and time alone with my wife. Like many people today, I'm working hard to provide a comfortable life for my family. To me, life is an exciting adventure and each new challenge brings an opportunity to grow. Talking about truth and principles is one of my favorite pastimes.

My hopes for my children are that they can expand their mind by gaining a life-long love of learning, so I encourage them to fulfill and transcend educational requirements and to look at education as something to seek, rather something to endure.

I seek to further my own education by continual reading and study on subjects that I feel will help me to change the world.

Why I am a Mormon

Because, in the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, I find rational resolution to the contradictions and paradoxes found in society. The doctrines of the church help me to keep the perspective that even though I don't know everything I am encouraged to find out as much as I can about truth and life and to use my own mind and reason to find truth, while still relying on a benevolent Father in Heaven, who cares about me personally, to find truth when it is eluding me.

Personal Stories

How has attending Church services helped you?

As with everything worth doing, I need frequent reminders and motivation to live in accordance with my own moral ideals. Attending church services gives me this reminder and motivation. It grounds me to the combined faith of other members of the church, giving me strength during the times I fall short.

What have you done successfully to shield your family from unwanted influences?

We discuss hard topics with our children and are completely honest with them - teaching them about why people choose to participate in the harmful things and also explaining why we choose to refrain. We teach our children that their life will be a result of their choices and we try to make our home the safest place to make mistakes so that when they get into the rest of the world, they have learned some hard lessons, but are not scarred permanently like many people who learn things the hard way.

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

Our Family Mission Statement is:
As the ___ Family, together we will become an eternal family by focusing our thoughts, words and actions on building and strengthening our relationships with each other our relationship with God, both individually and as a family our relationships as a part of our extended families and our relationships with everyone else. We strive to demonstrate that we uphold the ___ Family Values by choosing to govern our own lives by the ___ Family Principles.

Think about your everyday activities. What are things you act upon each day where you cannot see the end results? How does faith move you to action?

Every day I seek to improve my mind by reading and pondering the best books. I want think clearly, concisely, virtuously, and independently. This type of thinking is not something for which one sees immediate results. It is my faith that improving my mind through reading of the best books leads me to this type of thinking that moved me to reading, and pondering what I read.

How I live my faith

I am serve as a Cub Scout leader in the Cub Scout Pack sponsored by my local church unit.

What is the Book of Mormon?

Ammon answered...

It is a record giving another example, along with the Bible, of the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and his love for his children.
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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.

What is being a Mormon like?

Shawn answered...

Being a Mormon is like being yourself but you will find more happiness through the gospel of Jesus Christ so you will a better yourself you won’t want to do the things you know are wrong. People will know that you are following Christ and they will respect you for that even if they tease you about it at first. You don’t have to change your personality but you will change the way you look at life and find more respect and love for Christ and what He did for you and for me.