Hi, I'm Amy

I'm a mom, a wife and a businesswoman. I own AppleCheeks cloth diapers and I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I'm from Montreal and am married to a wonderful Samoan man who was raised in New Zealand. Together we have three very big boys and I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on my own birthday - what a special birthday present! I adore my kids and really enjoy being active with them in the outdoors. My husband and I play sports with our kids, walk them to school and enjoy family cuddles.
Together our family spends lots of time enjoying nature and I would for sure consider myself an environmentalist. Taking care of our Earth while taking care of our family is so important to me. In 2007 I started my own business manufacturing and wholesaling cloth diapers. Becoming a businesswoman was surprising to me but a natural fit. As I have developed my business into what it is today, I have learned to use my natural talents in sales and business. Managing family life, business and everything else is a challenge I truly enjoy...almost every day.

Why I am a Mormon

I was raised in a loving home but with no faith and no religious teaching. In high school I decided I wanted to go to a church. My mother helped me find all the local churches in the yellow pages. At that same time I met a lovely LDS family and it was due to their example that I became interested in the Mormon Church. I was baptized when I was 16 years old and have never looked back since; it was the best thing I have ever done in my life.

Personal Stories

Think about your everyday activities. What are things you act upon each day where you cannot see the end results? How does faith move you to action?

My life is crazy - good - but crazy. I have four very busy children and a husband with whom I want to spend as much time as possible. I also run a serious business, have a very active social life and volunteer in Church and my community. There are days when I think I cannot do it all but mostly I enjoy trying to. Knowing that Heavenly Father has given me all these opportunities makes me sure that He has also given me the talents and abilities by which to fulfill my every day responsibilities and activities. While my life is super busy, I love it and am thankful for all my adventures in family-life, business and my community.

How I live my faith

A few years after being baptized I was able to serve a Spanish speaking mission in Honduras. To this day I miss Honduras and its people but I also enjoy serving locally as a Sunday School teacher. I LOVE teaching the gospel!
The biggest ways in which my husband and I live our faith is by being active parents and good neighbours. We have many dear friends who live in our neighbourhood with whom we enjoy a very active social life. We are the only Mormons among our group of friends. We have lots of fun together and hopefully my family gives a good example of what a faith-filled home can be.

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?

Amy answered...

I feel that as a Mother and Feminist I have gained a unique perspective into why women do not hold the Priesthood. I feel that Heavenly Father has given us, as women, supremely important opportunities to labour and give birth and nourish our babies, which give us a special bond with them throughout their lives.
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Madelyn answered...

I feel that men and women both have different but equally important roles in getting us back to God. In God's eternal plan we were spirits in His presence before this life. To progress we needed to get bodies on this earth, then perform specific ordinances (eg baptism, marriage) to return to God after this life. Women were given the godly power to bring spirits into this world and give them bodies, then nurture and raise these children with God's inspiration and guidance. The men were assigned the responsibility (through the God's Priesthood power) to serve others and administer the ordinances that will bring God's children back to His presence after this life. Both roles are necessary and equally important to God's plan for us.
I don't think women need the Priesthood to be powerful influences and to do God's work in their homes and in the church. I see men grow spiritually, and their characters become more godly when they act in God's name through using the Priesthood.
I have never felt the need to hold the Priesthood myself. I can still receive all the blessings offered by the Priesthood, my prayers can be just as powerful, and I still have access to the inspiration of God in my life.

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.