Hi I'm Jeremy Van Pinxteren

About Me

Married to a Wonderful woman. One Cute little boy we have nicknamed Buggy. Two dogs:German Shepard-Ana & Shiba Inu-Memphis Love playing Soccer and Running. I served a mission in California Anaheim from 2003-2005.

Why I am a Mormon

I have lived a life outside and inside the religion, and I must say that being a member of the church and living the principals taught have brought so much more happiness into my life then what was offered in the world.

Personal Stories

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

One thing that we do as a family is family scripture study, prayer, and Family Home evening. Our son right now is too young to understand the pricipals being taught, but we want his earliest memories to be of our family doing things we have been asked to do. By doing this we hope to instill the importance of these things being done by the example of doing them.

How I live my faith

Through service. We are taught in our religion to serve others and in doing so we are serving our God.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What is a “testimony” that Mormons speak of?
Jeremy Van Pinxteren answered...

Testimony is a personal witness each person receives on gospel pricipals that are taught. Each person receives a testimony in a different way and at different speeds. There may be some that just pray about it and know. For others they may pray about it and have to live it for some time to develope a testimony. However it comes, it is their own personal testimony that they know that pricipal is true. Being their own testimony, no one can tell them other wise wether it is true or not, because they have learned for themselves, and know for themselves that it is true. Show more Show less
Andrew answered...

The testimony we talk about in the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saint is the same as a testimony in a court case, Its a statement of knowledge that you build from to find truth. For example in court you would say I know Joe blogs was bowling with me at 4pm yesterday so he couldn't have been anywhere else. In a church sense i would say I know the book of Mormon has drawn me closer to God, so that i know that It is a book of God and from that i know that Josephs smith had to have been called of God to have been able to translate it. Show more Show less

Why was a Restoration of the Gospel needed? Haven’t we always had the Bible?
Daniel answered...

When Jesus was on the earth he established his church. To guide it, 12 apostles were called by God and had priesthood authority to act in his name. When an apostle died, he was to be replaced so that there would always be 12 “special witnesses” of Christ (this is shown by the calling of Mathias as a member of the 12 in Acts:1) The early years were troublesome times for Christians. The greatest antagonist to the church was the Roman Empire. During this era of persecution, apostles were killed and priesthood authority was lost. Centuries after Christ was crucified Rome pulled a 180 and adopted its own form of “Christianity” as the mandated state religion. To conform to previously held pagan traditions, ordinances like baptism were changed and creeds of faith, not found in the bible, were established. Recognizing the discrepancies between this church and New Testament Christianity, righteous people protested and many of their followers formed new churches. This era of protestant reformation was critical in advancing religious liberty. But simply recognizing the errors of a church, does not give one God's priesthood authority (see Hebrews 5:4) Even those with the best intentions of following Christ’s teachings need proper priesthood authority to be baptized. The world needed a Restoration of Christ’s original church, not a reformation of an apostate version of it. And as soon as a nation was established with the religious freedom to allow it, the Lord did restore his church! Show more Show less

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