Hi, I'm Daniel

and I am definitely a Mormon!

About Me

I love to read!

My favorite spices is Cayenne & Garlic and I'm interested in herbology and natural medicine.

Though I don't care for hunting much, I enjoy the outdoors and have pretty much been to every national or statepark west of Mississippi in my lifetime.

Never really cared much for cars and as long as it gets me from point A to B I'm fine!

I like gemstones and have a decent collection of which I have no idea what I'll ever do with!

Why I am a Mormon

I was born and raised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in a loving family with parents who loved me. However, that is not why I am a member.

When I was 17 I spiraled into an abyss of physical and spiritual depression. I left the Church and faith of my birth and cut religion out of my life. Spiritually, I was dead.

For years I trudged through a dismal landscape devoid of light. Hunger and curiosity leading me forward, I wandered down and started to travel strange paths.

As a consequence, I unintentionally opened myself to a world best left unseen and unheard. Contrary to my desire, I started learning things and having experiences that began to rend my soul as if tearing it apart. I was lost. Lost in a night so dark and dismal that I knew not where to turn or how to escape.

Then, a ray of light rent the darkness of my night.

I testify that there is no other name, or power under earth or heaven, by which mankind can be redeemed and sanctified. No other way we can be saved. Only Him. My joy is this, I know that Jesus Christ lives.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He lives!
I know because he rescued me. He reached down into my darkness and lead me back into the light.
I know because through repentance I watched as the power of his Atonement shattered the shackles of my sins and addictions to dust.
I know because I've felt the spirit of God burn in my heart bearing witness.

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints because God saw fit in his mercy to rescue me from the chains of Hell. Because the fullness of the Gospel really was restored through Joseph Smith who really was a true prophet called of God. Because this really is the Lord's Church and he really does lead it still. Because the Book of Mormon is all that it claims to be. True.

Why am I a Mormon?

Because of Love.

Personal Stories

In what ways have your prayers been answered?

I have received and still continue to receive many answers to my prayers.

Guidance on important choices.
Answers to expressed questions.
Confirmations of truth.
Witnesses of personal worth and love.
Comfort and peace when distraught and in need of succor.
Miracles of healing.

God hear's our prayers. We have been commanded to pray in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and promised that if we do so, he will hear our prayers.

He listens and while he does not always answer when we want, how we want, or the way we want, he does answer. When we have enough faith, and the desire is in accordance with his will, miracles happen.

God loves us and wants to guide us and help us navigate this mortal life and all it's trials and difficulties.

There is power in prayer.

How I live my faith

How?

Through Temple attendance, church attendance, constant daily prayer and scripture study. Through earnestly desiring to live the commandments of God and striving always to keep them. By using what God has blessed me with to bless others. These as well as others are the primary acts by which my faith both lives and breaths.

I am a bearer of the Aaronic & Melchizidek Priesthood. As a Priest I serve in the capacity of blessing the sacrament. In the capacity of a 'Home Teacher', I have a responsibility over a few families in my ward which I regularly visit to ensure their well being while also providing an uplifting thought and message. And now as an Elder, I have even further opportunities to give service and bless the lives of others.

I live my faith by applying the teachings of Jesus Christ into my daily life. Listening and learning from prophets both of long ago and modern day, I search to see how it applies to me and how I can change to become a better man.

Though slower than I sometimes like, I can feel myself changing, becoming more like He who marked the way. Having been changed by the power of the Atonement once, I seek to complete and make permanent that change of heart.

My faith lives and breathes. It's alive. I'll continue to nurture it until that which started as a tiny mustard seed has grown into a huge and beautiful tree of life everlasting.

I know where I came from, I know why I'm here, I know who I am, I know where I'm going, and I know what it will take to get there.

So can you. Will you ask? I did. He answered. He'll answer you too.

What do Mormons believe happens to us after we die? What do Mormons believe about life after death?

Daniel answered...

The soul of man is the union of the spirit to a tabernacle of flesh known as our bodies. Upon death of the body, the spirit separates and enters either Spirit Prison or Spirit Paradise based on their life and whether or not they lived and accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his saving ordinances.

There are many mansions in the Kingdom of the Father and all those who have not committed the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost, which is predicated upon having first received a sure knowledge, will be rewarded one of these kingdoms. After the great and final day of Judgement, all of mankind leaves both Spirit Prison and Spirit Paradise and, after permanently being rejoined to a perfected body, are rewarded with a Kingdom of Glory according to their works and their faith.

Among those who enter spirit prison are those who, being of an age where they are accountable for their sins, never had the opportunity to either hear or receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here they are taught the Gospel by missionaries sent of God.

There is life after death. We are spiritual beings which are living here on earth to gain a physical body.

Death is not the end. Life does go on. There is a purpose and there is a plan.
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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?

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.