Hi, I'm Nicole

I'm a World Traveler, a Thinker, a Humanitarian, and I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I have a deep and intense addiction to all things to do with travel: books, airplanes, Europe, night trains, weird food, roadtrips, adventures, museums, etc. I love seeing the world. I love finding causes to stand behind. I love school. I'm a university student studying to be a publishing agent (meaning I love books and learning). I'm a redhead, which has a surprising effect on my personality and outlook on life. I believe in the healing power of service, big and small. I've had the opportunity to work with orphans in Romania which changed me forever. And I fancy myself a writer.

I believe in big goals, big dreams, and living a big life.

Why I am a Mormon

Two words: Peace and Happiness. I was born and raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within which I have learned to grow, flourish, discover my uniqueness and have gained great levels of personal peace and happiness. I am profoundly grateful for this church because it has given me so much more than any other experience, condition, organization or education I have encountered.

There is peace I have found in the Book of Mormon. Peace I have found in learning of and using the Atonement of Jesus Christ. There is happiness in living a Christ-centered life. There is happiness found in living the commandments and principles of the Gospel.

My face offs with unhappiness or disquiet have been few and brief and I lend that much to my firm and resilient knowledge of my loving and personal Heavenly Father and my caring and supportive family.

How I live my faith

I try to live my faith. I do what is taught. I serve, I love, I labor. I work to be educated. I have been a missionary. I have been a church girls camp counselor. I actively seek to feel charity, the pure love of Christ, for others regardless our differences or similarities. I try to do the very best I can and rest in the comfort the Atonement of our Savior provides for what I am lacking.

I believe in what James in the Bible said, "What doth it profit, my bretheren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what faith doth it profit? Even so, faith if it hath not works, is dead." (James 2:14-17)

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?

Nicole answered...

Men and women are fundamentally different. That is obvious to all. Different does not mean unequal, especially in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The roles women play are different and therefore require different blessings and tools. Women are not lacking for not holding the priesthood and not seen as such.

Women naturally have the nature to nurture. We innately desire to love and serve. There is not a large need for women to be compelled to be of service to others. It is no matter that the Lord has a different calling for women than men. Each role is pivotal and profound.

Women lead in the church as teachers, advisors, counselors, presidents of organizations, mothers, wives and friends. The feminine voice is always heard in the Church.
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Kara answered...

Women don't hold the priesthood in the church, as this is a teaching that has come from Jesus Christ. However, women have such a significant role to play in the church that personally I have never felt that this is an issue I am concerned with or even think about. My husband and I are equal partners in our family, and the church has such respect and reverence for women and their role in the world. Women in the church also belong to what is called the 'Relief Society' it is one of the largest women's organisation in the world, and fills me with such a desire to serve and do good that when we meet together wherever I am in the world I feel so proud to be apart of it.

Who founded Mormonism and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

Mark answered...

The most direct answer to the question is a group of six men who signed their names to a founding document on April 6, 1830. The room was filled with believers, but six signed to fulfill New York state law. Preeminent among them was Joseph Smith, Jr. who was designated the first elder and apostle by revelation. It is Joseph Smith, Jr. who is most often referred to as the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joseph, as a young man of eighteen years of age, was visited by an angel, the one mentioned in Revelation 14:6, who told him where an ancient record was buried which contained a history of a group of ancient, American Christians, and which also contained the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This record was translated by the gift and power of God by the young man with the aid of others as scribes and witnesses of the translation.

During translation they learned of the need of further organization, and this tiny group sought out God who sent additional angelic messengers which conferred authority from God to organize His Church again upon the earth, as it was in Biblical times. This group and those who believed their stories of miraculous events met in a farmhouse on April 6, 1830 in upstate New York to create an officially recognized organization that could hold the copyrights to the record that was translated as the Book of Mormon as well as other rights granted to religious societies.

It is called the Mormon church because of the book revealed from heaven, which is unique from all other Christian churches.