Hi, I'm Ammon

I have a wife and three children. I am a patriot, am active in politics, and love to travel throughout the world. I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I am married and a father of three children. I go to work each day and feel grateful to do so. My job has taken me throughout the world, allowing me the chance to meet lots of wonderful people and and become acquainted with other cultures. This has helped me to appreciate what I can learn from others, while also helping me to understand the many blessings that come from living in the United States of America. Part of this experience was serving a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy. Aside from learning Italian, I gained a love and appreciation for Italy and its wonderful people that I will retain forever.

Why I am a Mormon

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or "Mormon" for several principal reasons. During my early years growing up in Missouri, even though I had been born into an LDS family, I quickly gained a personal conviction that was spiritually based, allowing me to follow the faith on my own regardless of my parents' similar choices. What are these convictions? I am convinced that this Church has the fullness of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. It makes me a better person than I might otherwise be. It gives me the life-giving ordinances such as baptism, and those administered in the temples necessary to return to the presence of our Father in Heaven after this earthly life. There are many other faiths out there that are good and positive. However, none of them offer all of these things. That is "why I am a Mormon."

How I live my faith

I like to think that those who know me know what my beliefs are and that I live my faith daily without the need to wear it on my sleeve. That means that I do the usual things like attend church meetings regularly. But it also means that I apply the teachings of Jesus Christ to my every day actions. I try to be honest in my dealings with others. I believe in being a good citizen. I work at maintaining a strong family life and teaching my children well. I do not swear. I abstain from using tobacco, harmful drugs, and alcohol. I try to exercise generosity and look for opportunities to serve others. I think this is what God would have me do as part of living a Christlike life.

What is done with the tithing that Mormons pay?

Ammon answered...

Many news stories have touted the alleged wealth of the Church due to the amount of tithing funds it takes in as donated by its members. It is true that large amounts of money ARE taken in due to the payment of tithing. However, the Church is a large, centralized organization with many budgetary responsibilities. The church has no payed clergy. This means that these funds go entirely to building and maintaining churches and temples, as well as furthering the spreading of the Gospel throughout the world. So, while large amounts of money come into the Church, likewise, large amounts of money leave the Church.
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Lot answered...

The money received from members in the form of tithing goes directly to the headquarters of the church where a council decides what will be done with the money. Here are some ways in which the tithing funds are used:
1. Build, maintain, and operate temples, meetinghouses, and other buildings.
2. Provide operating funds for stakes, wards, and other units of the Church. (These units use the funds to carry out the ecclesiastical programs of the Church, which include teaching the gospel and conducting social activities.)
3. Help the missionary program.
4. Educate young people in Church schools, seminaries, and institutes.
5. Print and distribute lesson materials.
6. Help in family history and temple work.

*It is important to note that tithing funds are not used to pay leaders of the church. All leaders of the church are volunteers and receive no form of pay.

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

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.