Hi, I'm Karen

I graduated with a BS from BYU and an MS from Stanford in electrical engineering. I have five children. I'm a Mormon.

About Me

I love teaching science and working with kids. I also enjoy the fine arts. I dance with a group for school assemblies, organize a ballroom dance class for youth, teach aerobics, perform in plays and musicals, and teach my kids piano.

Why I am a Mormon

I believe that this church contains the gospel of Jesus Christ in the purest form: loving others, centering on family and other eternal relationships, prophets, revelation, and personal prayer. I testify that by acting on these simple truths, a person may draw closer to God while finding happiness and fulfillment in this life and in the life to come.

Personal Stories

How can we develop greater harmony in our homes?

Love your family members first and foremost.
As a parent, make rules foster good habits and set the example by keeping them.
Sing and laugh.
Read scriptures and pray as a family.
Read wholesome stories to children at night.
Tuck everyone in bed with a hug.
Awake everyone with a hug.
Tell your family members that you love them daily.
Never speak badly of someone in the family outside the home.
Listen.
Work with your children and don't call it a chore.
Play with your children and don't call it a waste of time.
Take vacation.

How does making right choices help us make more right choices?

One right choose generally leads to a testimony of that decision which gives a person greater faith to follow God in the next decision.

How I live my faith

I work as the leader administering to the specific needs of sisters in my congregation. I visit with sisters and try to help them both spiritually and temporally. I can do this for over one hundred sisters through the organization of the church in a program called visiting teaching where every woman has two other sisters stop by each month to give a spiritual message and find out if there is a need in the family. If something arises, I work to bring resources or comfort to the sister and her family. I also oversee monthly evening activities for the women as well as weekly exercise programs for those that are interested.

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

Jordan answered...

Jesus Christ. The name of our curch is the Curch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When Christ was on the earth He started a church and it was organized by apostles, prophets, pastors, and teachers. Of course the organization that he set up later fell because people didn't want to hear from them. So later on, in the 1800s, Christ and Heavenly Father found it to be the right time to bring that same organization back to the earth. And they then called another prophet, the same way Christ did when he was on the earth. And that Prophet's name was Joseph Smith.
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.

What are Mormon women like? Do Mormons believe in equality of men and women?

Keri answered...

Mormon women are like any other good woman who is trying her best to raise a family in love and trying to leave the world a little better for future generations.

Mormons do believe in equality of men and women. We believe husband and wives are to work side by side, not one dominating over another. But equality does not mean being exactly the same. We believe that God gave men and women distinct and different roles/assignments to fulfill. Men are primarily responsible for the physical welfare of their families while women are to nurture and care for their families. Although the roles are different each one is important and critical.