Hi, I'm Lesa

I'm a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, exhausted and I'm a Mormon.

About Me

Let's see to talk about myself is a little strange because right now my world revolves around my husbands residency in General Surgery and my four little girls. I love being a wife and mother and it truly is the joy of my life.
In my free time when I have it I love to paint, read and go out to eat with friends. I love gardening, i have recently started piano. I love to learn new things, crafting, cooking, history, just about everything that would improve or inspire me in my life.

Why I am a Mormon

I am asked this question frequently. They always say so your parents were members and you were baptized when you were eight so that is why but really that is just the beginning.
I think their comes a time in everyones life when they search to find the meaning of life and what their role is in this existence.
Being a Mormon has answered all my questions about where I was before this life, why I am here and where am I going.
It comes down to prayer. Every time I pray to find out if this is the True church my heart if filled with peace and understanding. I can see how this gospel has blessed my life and how the council of the Prophets in our days have changed my path to better futures.

Personal Stories

Why/How do you share the gospel with your friends?

I share my feelings and love I have about the gospel with my friends because I want them to be as happy as me! Life is hard with many ups and downs not having the gospel in my life would make everything harder, Like pushing a rock up a hill not knowing why you do it. The gospel helps you see that on the other side of the mountain there is a dam breaking and this rock is exactly what is needed to secure the dam. Without this knowledge it would be easy to give up but when you know what's waiting you can hold on.

How I live my faith

I live my life one day at a time! Today was ok, tomorrow will be better. baby steps to help me reach my goal of Eternal life with My Family. Being a Mormon helps me be a better wife and mother. When you are a women in the Mormon church you are in the worlds largest women's organizations The Relief Society.
I love this organization. Right now I am the president of the Relief Society in my congregation we call it a ward Being called at 35 with young children I wasn't sure how I could help these wonderful women in reaching their divine natures of daughters of god. But as I serve I am sustained and uplifted. I love serving and helping these women. I think they are helping me more than I help them.
Growing up with 3 brothers no sisters and having my mom pass away before I was married it has helped me so much to have these "Sisters" in my life. I can ask them for help in everything from how to potty train to what is the best way to get candle wax off your couch. I have never felt alone because I am surrounded by wonderful amazing ladies that are full of experience that I get the privilege of serving.

Can husband and wife be together forever? Do you believe that families will live together in heaven?

Lesa answered...

I know that this is possible! 4 months before my wedding in the Temple to my wonderful husband my beautiful mother died. She had Lupus and it had started to affect her lungs a few months before she was diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension and given 10 years to live she was on an experimental drug that showed great progress. She was in and out of the hospital with pneumonia. When I got the call that I needed to get home as soon as possible that she was in The hospital and The Doctors say it's not good. I drove 7 hours and within the next few days she was gone.
she couldn't talk to me and say her goodbyes she had a Tub down her throat and when they pulled it it caused so much damage she couldn't speak by then all I could do was watch my Mom Struggle for her last breaths and Hold her hand tight.
Watching someone you love die is not fun, it's scary and unfair. You feel helpless like there must be someone to stop this from happening . I cried so hard for the next few months but each time I cried comfort would come over me. "it's only for a little while sweetheart" I will see my Mother again.
A few months later my wonder husband and I were sealed in the Temple by some one having the priesthood authority. It's not just tell death do us part but for Time and All Eternity. Not only will I be with my husband forever but also my children, my children's children, my brothers, my grandparents, my father and yes my sweet mother.
Matt answered...

The Lord would not command us to love each other so much during our lives only to tear us apart in the next life. We are one flesh just as the Lord is one with his church. The scriptures say that we are not to be put asunder.
Christ gave his apostles special revelations on this subject:
Matthew, Chapter 16:
Jesus said to his apostles:
19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

What else would his apostles bind, and what else could the Savior mean, if not marriages? Christ put no limit on their binding power to bind relationships and covenants. Their power extends into heaven.
And he continued by saying:
20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
– because some things are kept sacred until later times when the world is ready to receive them.
Temple sealing and eternal marriage are primarily the subject of modern revelation through prophets in our time.

In the latter days, according to prophecy, Elijah has returned to join families together. Malachi 4:5-6. We believe that prophets in each age bring new revelation from God. Amos 3:7.
This latter day revelation has finally made clear how families are kept together in heaven—something people have wondered about throughout the ages. (Ephesians 5:32, wherein it says that the subject of marriage in Biblical times was “a great mystery”). In our time, the purpose of marriage and family is clear: ordinances are being performed to unite the whole human family throughout all dispensations of time. It is a unique work for the latter days. These modern revelations free human kind from the depressing, and divorce-promoting idea that the family becomes meaningless in the life hereafter. The Lord would not put us in a world so alien to our heavenly home. In heaven, families are the eternal organizational unit in his kingdom.

What do Mormons believe happens after we die?

Raewyn answered...

We were so very sad when our very special eleven year old grandson died in 2009. He suffered from life threatening asthma from birth and was often in hospital. He caught a virus which attacked his heart causing it to go into a dangerous rhythm, which eventually stopped his heart. Every attempt was made to save him but to no avail. The night he died, I thought I might die too - I was so overcome with grief. I was grieving not only for him but for our daughter and her family too. I received enormous comfort from my family and friends, especially those in the church and the outpouring of love and support was indescribable. However, the most comfort I received was my knowledge that I absolutely knew that we would see him again in the next life and that our family would be together forever in the eternities. I was also comforted to know that our grandson would be free from his health problems and be able to have peace. Even though I miss him terribly, I know he is happy and with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I feel his spirit around me often. I know with total conviction that the Lord has unconditionally supported all of our family through this trial and continues to do so daily.