Hi, I'm Ben

I'm a sportswriter, and I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I'm a writer and a sports fan. I'm studying to become sports journalist in the next few years. I have a passion for football - soccer - and a love of life in general. I keep myself busy trying to achieve my dreams and ambitions and serve other people along the way.

Why I am a Mormon

I'm a very analytical person and love for things to make sense to me. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is, for me, the only church which makes sense and explains so many of my questions logically and in a way that feels good to me. I'm a Mormon because it makes me happy, and isn't that what we're all looking for in life?

Personal Stories

Can you talk about the missions of the Church and your participation in them?

Jesus told His disciples to go spread the Gospel to all the world, and that mandate is still in force today. For this reason, our church sends missionaries all over the earth with the purpose of bringing people closer to Christ. I've known close friends and family who have served in Argentina, Brazil, the U.K., Ukraine, Peru, the West Indies, and other places. I myself had the honor of serving in South Carolina for two years. It was a hugely rewarding experience and a blessing in my life to see the message that I helped to share touch and change people's lives for the better. I've seen many people come unto Christ, and I had the opportunity to serve countless people. It was the best thing I’ve ever decided to do.

How I live my faith

I try to serve the Lord every day by showing others how the Gospel has brought me happines and how it can bring them the same. I find as I serve others and share what I believe with them it brings me greater happiness in my life. I serve in my community by helping others whenever and wherever I can in various outlets.

Who wrote the Book of Mormon?

Ben answered...

The Book of Mormon was written over a period of hundreds of years by prophets special messengers who spoke with God and in turn spoke to the people who lived in the ancient Americas. Many different people contributed to the writing of the Book of Mormon. They were all prophets, and they all wrote down significant current events of their time and what we can learn from them. They also wrote down those things that God would have the people know calls to repentance, prophecies about the future, and the message that everyone needs Christ as their Saviour.

The writings and history recorded by these many prophets were compiled several hundred years after the birth of Christ by a prophet-historian named Mormon into one book which he called The Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is thus, like the Bible, a collection of many different books written by many different ancient prophets whose words are still applicable and valuable today. I know they’ve helped me, and I know they can help anyone who sincerely studies and applies these words in their lives.
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Casey Dickson answered...

The Book of Mormon is a record of the ancient inhabitants of America, and their dealings with God; namely, the native Americans. God is no respector of persons; He loves all His children. He wants us all to make it back to live with Him; the Book of Mormon is proof to me that God loves all people of all nations; why would he only give His Word to just the Children of Israel?
The Book of Mormon was written by the prophets that were called of God on the American Continent; they too testifed that Jesus is the Christ, and he would surely come to redeem us from our sins. The book gets it's name from the prophet Mormon, who collected the individual records kept by prophets throughout the centuries, and complied them into one volume, written on gold plates. He gave them to his son, Moroni, who buried them in a hill by what is now known as Upstate New York. Centuries later, a young man named Joseph Smith, who wanted to know which church was true, had a vision of God the Father and His Son, who told him the truth was lost over the years, and he would be a tool in the Lord's hands to restore what was lost. A few years later, that same Moroni who buried the plates, visited Joseph as an angel of the Lord, and directed him to the ancient record. Through the gift on power of God, he was able to translate the book into English. The Book of Mormon helps us understand the fullness of the Gospel; with the Bible, we can discover God's will for us.

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.