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Hi, I'm Tatiana
I grew up in the military. I'm a foreign language junkie. I'm a mom and I'm a Mormon.
About Me
I love learning foreign languages. I guess the reason I love learning languages is because people from totally different cultural groups have such fascinating views on the world. Their experiences are so different than mine that I can't help being surprised sometimes by how alike and how different two people can be. I will also admit that I've always been a talker and the prospect of increasing my audience of people to talk with is also a big plus for me.
I am currently having lots of chances to practice my Spanish because our congregation has about 20 Spanish only members and I get to help with out reach to them. It is really a wonderful opportunity.
I'm also learning sign language, which began as a fun way to help my kids' cognitive development, but it's so much fun that I want to just keep going. I also speak German and Lithuanian.
Why I am a Mormon
I grew up in a mormon family, and that certainly got me started on the path, but there came a time in my life when I really questioned whether all the principles I had been taught in my life were true. It was after a family discussion that we had about Jesus Christ. I was really shocked by the realization that no, I didn't know if Jesus Christ were real and I wanted to. I went to my room really worried and crying about it. Then when sitting on my bed I heard a voice in my mind comforting me and felt so calm and happy. I knew that Jesus Christ lived and my feelings for the church have grown since that point until now I know that this church is true.
Personal Stories
Please explain the part prayer plays in your life?
As a parent it seems like there are so many things that I don't really know how to do properly, from potty training to teaching my kids how to read. When my oldest was small I didn't know how to get him to sleep, how to bath him or anything really. I feel like in parenting the stakes are so high, these helpless darling little people need you to do almost everything for them, and you so don't want to make a mistake.
I use prayer as a constant lifeline, I think I must pray for some sort of help with something or for ideas, or patience or strength, like every 5-7 minutes. I think if I were always asking anyone else for help he or she would get very irritated with me. I am so glad that I can rely on my Heavenly Father to listen to my problems and answer me with love and support and even with concrete answers to my questions. He is really so very good and kind.
I feel like when I trust the difficult decisions in parenting to Him through prayer then I know my children will have what they need and even when I make mistakes, He will help me and them.
How does making right choices help us make more right choices?
Making right choices seems, like so many other things in life, to be habit forming. Once we tell the truth, maintain our cool with frustrating people or stand up for someone who is being mistreated we feel a great feeling inside knowing that what we did was directly in line with what we believe to be right. Then we have more incentive to keep making those right decisions even if it is hard.
What are you doing to help strengthen your family and make it successful?
For me, the challenge to have a stronger family has started with me. I have been working very hard to improve myself specifically by praying and studying in the Bible and the Book of Mormon about patience. Can't wait till I can report that I never loose my cool, but until then I feel the Lord guiding me and helping me to make baby steps in my personal habits, that really seem to be helping me to learn to be more patient.
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?
Baking bread, and putting your clothes in the dryer along with so many other things are all acts of faith. I believe that in putting bread ingredients into a bread maker I will then at the end of a cycle have some delicious bread to eat. When I put clothes in the dryer I believe that they will come out dry at the end of one (or maybe two) cycles. The more I do these processes the more confident I am that they will work. This is what faith is, you don't know for sure if the yeast you used will rise, or if the dryer will do it's job, but as you continuously bake bread and dry clothes in the dryer your confidence and faith in the bread maker and the dryer gets stronger and stronger.
Because I have faith in Jesus Christ and in his gospel I do things that I believe will yield favorable results. For instance, I read the Book of Mormon and as I do it over and over and try to live its precepts, I am more and more convinced and I have more and more faith that it is true.
How I live my faith
One of my favorite things is prayer to my Father in Heaven. I feel his love and his guidance. I feel like life's challenges are more easily solved with His help.
My calling in our ward is to teach the 18 month - 3 year olds during the second and third hour of our Sunday services. I just started and it is really fun so far. We sing songs, play with toys, pray, talk about an aspect of Jesus Christ's gospel, color pictures and eat snacks!
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