Last Post For Approximately A Week Or Sooner I Hope

Well Folks, I Needed To Come Online And Announce Some Away Time From The Network With Much Sadness. Due To Temporary Financial Hardships Me And The Family Are Going Through, The Computer We're Renting Is Going To Be Picked Up Until We Can Get Caught Up On Payments. So This Will Be My Last Post Until Then. I Apologize For Any Inconvenience This May Cause Any Of You. You Will Be Missed Until My Return.

So My Last Post Until Then Will Be My Testimony As It Should Be. Well, Me And My Family Are Going Through A Few Difficulties Financially & Spiritually. I Know That God Can't Always Give Us What We Want, But He Provides Us With What We Need. I Tell You, People, Without The Gospel Actively In Our Lives As It Is, Our Problems And Hardships Would Me So Much Worse. But We're People Of The Covenant. We Are Members And We Are Devoted To Family And The Gospel Equally. I Can't Express Enough How Grateful And Blessed We Are That At Least Now & Forever I'm Active Again And Have Promised Myself And God That I Will Never Stray Again. My Definition Of Happiness Used To Be So Different. But The Gospel Is The Only True Happiness. I Couldn't Imagine Being Any Other Way And It Feels So Right. It Is So Right. It Is The Most Righteous Of Anything Else - To Raise My Family With The LDS Gospel As Our Way Of Life - So Much More Than Just A "Religion" Or Religious Stereotype. This Is Truly Who We Are, What We Stand For And What Its All About.

A Few Weeks Ago, I Made A Trip To The Church Office Building Here In Salt Lake City To Request A Copy Of My Patriarchal Blessing. I Received It When I Was 15. That Was Half My Life Ago. If You Are A Return Visitor Here You Know That I Fell Away When IWs 17-18 And Just Came Back This Year. During That Time I Lost My Copy Of My Blessing - Because I Lost My Way. I Wanted The Copy Of It Because I Needed To Know What I Couldn't Remember. I Got It In The Mail Over The Weekend. I Cried And Cried Because In Reading It, So Many Things Made Sense And Had Come To Pass That Didn't Make Sense Before. I Can Appreciate It And Live By It Now. I'm So Glad Now More Than Ever That I Got It And Just That I Came Back To Church For Good. I Am Who I Am Today And I Love It.

An Amazing Thing Happened As Well And It Was One Of The Amazing Magical Answers We As Mormons Can All Identify With That Ironically But Fortunately Only Happens To Mormons As Part Of Our Promise In The Plan Of Salvation. As You Probably Know, Last Week, (And Its Been Heavily Publicized All Over This Network), I Began My Family Search - My Genealogy. I've Been Lost About It. I'm Still New To It And Its Been Discouraging That There Is Little If Anything At All About My Ancestors, Even Ones Who Have Been Deceased For 30 Or So Years. My Uncle Gale Rasmussen Died In The 70's, The Same Decade I Was Born In (1975) And My Aunt Died Over 3 Years Ago. Still No Record Of Even The Deceased. My Father Who Died When I Was 2 Was Not Listed. I'll Be 30 In December. Last Year, Even My Own Mom Lost Track Of My Age. She Thought I Has Turned 30. Okay Mom. I've Had Almost Nothing To Work With. But In My Patriarchal Blessing, It States Enough About My Ancestry For Me To Have A Clearer Idea Of Where To Start. But Perhaps I Should Talk To Sister Colleen Kidd Our Ward Family History Secretary About More On Researching Family History. Ironically, We Had A Wonderful Speaker In Sacrament Meeting Today Who Spoke About Family History. Thank God For Those Wonderful Magical Mormon Miracles Once Again! See, GOD GIVES YOU WHAT YOU NEED!

Regardless, The Point Is That Through My Patriarchal Blessing And My Life's Path And Being A Member, My Blessing Said So Much And I Know That My Blessing Is My Life's Plan Because It Was Given 15 Years Agoo And Much Of It Has Come To Pass. Through It I Can Testify That Much More Of Jesus' Love For Us Through His Ultimate Sacrifice For Our Salvation And Redemption After The Fall. I Know And I'm Eternally Grateful That A Daughter Of God Is Who I Am And A Mother And That I'm On The Right Path. I'm Right Where I'm Meant To Be In Life. I'm On My Way Back Home And I Can Get Through Any Stumble Or Road Block That Satan Would Throw My Way To Stop My From Returning To My Heavenly Father. The Devil Aims To Hit You Hard With It Where It Hurts The Most But Misses Every Time When It Comes To Heavenly Father & Jesus' Power & Love.

Throug It I Know That No Matter How Hard Things Are For Us Right Now That This Too Shall Pass. I'm Getting Us Ready To Receive All The Covenants And Blessings That Have Been Promised To Me. I'm Just Glad For My Life And My Way Of Life Through The Gospel. I Don't Want To Raise My Family And Live My Life Any Other Way. I Won't, I Refuse To Live Any Other Way. I Say These Things In The Name Of Jesus Christ, Amen.

See You In A Week. Have A Great Week. Stay Strong & Faithful And Follow God Always, You Won't Be Disappointed.

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