Hi, I'm Mitzi

I am volunteer, lover of ethnic foods, outdoors-women, mother and wife. I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I am a mom, wife, volunteer, red cross instructor, and outdoors women. As a family we love to hunt, fish, and be outdoors.
I find my days full of things other might find mundane or boring, But I enjoy working at my daughters school, walking the dog, helping my husband at his office, and finding deal on items we need or want. We have made sacrafices as a family and couple so I can spend time raising our family. our house could be bigger, we could take more elaborate vacations, and we could be putting more money in savings; but instead we are creating better memories, finding joy in the simple things, and teaching our children that they are the most imortant thing in our lives.
most of my close friends are not members of the LDS church, but our desires to do what is best for our familys and mutal respect, similar values, and morals helps us see past our relgious diffrences.
I believe that by following Jesus Christs example I can be happer, a better mother, a more understanding wife, and at peace.

Why I am a Mormon

I love the feeling I get as I go to church each week. The "old fashioned" values that we embrace and teach our children keep us grounded in this busy world. I believe the family unit and the importance of maintaining moral standard.

Serving others is the true opportunity for personal growth, by being member of a chruch who seek service opportunites I am forced to think outside of myself and my family and thus become more like Christ.

I truly believe that this is the one true church who holds all the keys to the priesthood and will help me be with my greatest treasure my family not just for time but for eternity.

Personal Stories

How has your knowledge of the Plan of Happiness changed/benefited your life?

My parents were baptized after my brother was born. I was lucky to be raised in the church with parents who wanted teh best for me an my brothers and sisters. I have not always been as active in the church as I am today. But the knowledge that Heavenly father loves me and that I am a child of God have keep me seeking forgiveness and truths. Thru prayer and following the commandments I have no doubt that there is a plan for happiness and that we can return to our Heavenly father one day.

What is hope and what do you hope for?

Hope is the feeling I have every day as my family gets up and ready for the day. I hope for happiness, peace, and for it to be, "a good day."

I hope that my children will be safe, they will make good choices, that people will be nice to them, and that they will learn new things. I hope that my husband will enjoy his day at the office, that he will retutn safely back to our home at night, that he will be an influence for good to those around him, and that he will continue to be able to provide for our family.

I hope that i will make our home a safe and secure place, that others will feel at peace around me. Hope gets me thru my day, without hope and faith the realitys of our ever changing and more destructive World would bog me down.

i know is sounds rehearsed, but without hope getting out of bed each day would be next to impossible. Hope helps me accept the things that I cannot control and accept things that i cannot explain.

How I live my faith

About a year ago my Bishop called me into his office to extend a calling to me. As members of the LDS chruch we believe that a calling comes thru fasting and prayer by the Bishopric. Much to my suprise I was asked to serve as the Relief Society president in my ward. The Relief Society is the womens organization. All women from 18-100 or older are members of the Relief Society. This calling weights heavely on my mind and heart. With over 100 sisters to love, care for, help spirtually grow, and provide for this calling keeps me very busy. May evening and days are spent in prayer and service. I a learning how to be more Christ like, to truly turn to my Heavenly father in prayer, and how to lisen to the promptings of the spirit.

Although I am still way to young to be a Relief society president I know that i am never alone. I have my Heavenly father to guide me, my Bishopric to suppot me, and 100 plus good sisters in faith.

My faith grows each week as I watch the sisters (that what we call each other sister (last name)) serve each other and care for those around them.

In my personal lfe, faith has always been a very private thing. Sharing my testimony has always been hard for me. I think that sometimes it is hard because I have a tendency to doubt and thus do not want to share something that i am doubting. Sometimes it is hard to share because I am so sure and my heart is so full I know if i open up my heart that the tears will flow, and I was rasied in a family who does not cry. As I have gotten older I have realized that the doubts go away as i share my feelings and as I learn to lisen when the spirit speaks to me.

I will share my testimony with you. I know will all my heart that I have a Heavenly father whom loves me and want the best for me and my family. Each day I feel his love and see his concern for those around me. Heavenly Father sent his Son Jesus Christ to die for my sins, and thru honest repentance I can be washed clean of sin.

Why don’t women hold the priesthood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? How do Mormon women lead in the Church?

Mitzi answered...

As I serve in my calling as a Relief Society president (the Relief Society is the organization for all women over 18 years of age) i have gained a greater testimony of the importance of the preisthood. One would think that the oppisite would happen, that as I was placed in a calling of higher responsiblity that i would wonder why I couldn't hold more keys or have more responsiblity, this is not the case. In working with the Bishopric I have learned the unique role that we as women hold within the church. I have never felt less important or as if my thoughts and feelings are dismissed. I work with my bishop to issue callings based on insperation and prayer. As president of the organization I have had many opportunites to hear the promptings of the spirit and communcat those promptings with our Bishop. We council together to make our ward members stronger and to fullfill thier needs.

In my home i am so thankful for a worth man who takes the responsiblities of his priesthood serisously. He councils with me and supports me. His priesthood makes our marriage stonger and helps him be a better man.

As crazy as it sounds I am thankful i do not have the responsiblity of the preisthood, i get all of the blessings without any of the commitment :).
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Leeny answered...

This is a question I had to really consider before joining the Church. My mother is a non-denominational chaplain, and both my sisters are pastors. Female leadership in church settings is very important to my family.

It is to me as well. I think many people become offended when they learn that only men hold the priesthood because they misunderstand it. The priesthood is a tool given to men in order that they might serve others more. It does not in any way give them power or dominion over women. Those people who suppose the priesthood is a way to control others are deeply mistaken.

My husband is a priesthood holder, this means I am too. I have claim on my husband's priesthood power. Even more than he does. If I am sick, discouraged, or in need of help I can call upon my husband to give me a blessing through the priesthood that he holds. I then recieve many blessings because of my husband's worthiness to work in behalf of Christ. My husband is never able to give himself a blessing though. If he is sick or discouraged he must call on other priesthood holders to administer to him. My husband holds the priesthood so that he can bless me and our child - never himself.

The priesthood is the power of Christ on the earth. It allows those who hold it to serve their families in the same way Christ served the Church. Did Christ do any deed for himself during his earthly ministry? No. Christ spent all his energy serving the people. This is what the priesthood does for my husband. It infuses him with Christ's compassion and ability to love, and then my husband is able to use that celestial love in our family.

Why don't women also recieve this special gift then? The simple answer is women don't need it. As women we are innately endowed with compassion, selflessness, and love. Think about the way a mother loves her child. I believe there is nothing more pure and similar to Christ's love for us, than a mother's love for her children. Women naturally have the ability to love as Christ does.

In an ideal situation, which is what God always intended for us, there are two partners in marriage. There is the husband and father, a priesthood leader who can be called upon to administer blessings and serve in Christ's name. And there is also the wife and mother, who is blessed with the ability to love as Christ loves and sacrifice for her family. These are two seperate and divinely appointed roles. Each complementing the other. Both make a complete home.

Women do not hold the priesthood because they do not need it. Women have other God-given powers that raise them up to the task they are called to. A man is appointed to serve his wife and children - it is the power of the priesthood that enables him to do this.

I am grateful to have a husband who is worhty to use the priesthood in my behalf. It has blessed me many times and I know that it is a special gift from God - not only to my husband, but to me as well.

Mormons believe Jesus Christ is their Savior. Why do we need a Savior?

Nate answered...

The fundamental principle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the faith in, reliance upon, and relationship with Jesus Christ. We regard Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world. Everyone on the earth today has made mistakes. All of us have come short of the perfect example that Christ set for us. The problem is the laws of God state that “no unclean person…hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” (Ephesians 5:5) Because of these laws, we needed a way to be cleansed from these sins and mistakes. God knew that we would fall short of perfection and by His grace he provided us a Savior, Jesus Christ. Being a perfect soul without blemish, Jesus was capable and willing to take upon Himself our sins. Because He paid the penalty for our sins, the atonement, we must take upon ourselves His name to reap the blessings of forgiveness. We do this by having faith in Christ, admitting and repenting of our sins, and being baptized in the true and restored church of Jesus Christ.