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.

What are some things that tell to you there is a God?

David H. answered...

I identify with Fyodor Dostoevsky, who once wrote: "It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt." I respect people who find it difficult or impossible to believe, because of the incongruity of so much unjustifiable hurt and pain in the world or because the affirmative evidence for God's existence does not seem compelling. But yet I believe. I believe in a God who is powerful, knowledgeable, loving and good. I see God in the heavens and earth. I see God in the principles of physics, evolution and natural selection, psychology, engineering, mathematics, the arts and the humanities, among others. I see God in the multitude of faith (or nonfaith) traditions throughout the world and among all peoples, giving meaning, purpose and direction to God's children and creations. Yes, there is much inexplicable hurt, pain and injury in the world, and yes, God's respect for our free will and freedom to believe requires that the evidence for God be noncompelling. I do not pretend to know easy answers; I look forward one day to receiving explanations or understanding of those tough questions. In the meantime, I am grateful for the whisperings from God's spirit and for occasional experiences that, to me, seem like "postcards from God", confirming to me God's love and care for me and for all creation. I have never seen God personally, but I have experienced God and I have met God's children and seen God's creations.