Jan

15

Mormon LDS Leader, M Russell Ballard spoke about the limited practice of polygamy some 117 years ago in the Mormon Church. He then speaks about Mormon families and how important the family unit is to Mormons.

How important is the family unit? Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) believe that families are the most important and foundational unit of our lives. In fact, as one modern-day apostle aptly declared, “No success can ever compensate for failure in the home.”

Perhaps you’ve wondered how you can improve the quality of life in your family. Perhaps you’ve wondered if the God-given roles of the family are still alive and well. With conflicting voices about the value of the traditional family, where can you turn for guidance about strengthening the bonds between parents and children or about the nature and purpose of the family, motherhood, fatherhood, parenting, and gender roles?

God has not left us directionless. He has answered your questions about the nature of families in ancient and modern scripture. He has made clear the eternal nature of gender and sexuality and instructed us on the complimentary roles of men and women.

Today, a living prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley, and his twelve apostles–oracles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the world–have spelled out in a compelling Proclamation to the World the significance and eternal nature of the family.

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Jul

15

Last Saturday I went for the first time to get a massage. A friend of mine gave us a free ticket and I could not see a reason not to go.

I need to say that it was great, very relaxing. It actually helped me remove a little pain in one of my feet. Similarly my wife had not had back pain since then.

Today I went to the Temple, the Mormon Temple, where I serve almost every Tuesday morning for a few hours. While I was there, as usual, I felt better, more relaxed, and my spiritual or mental aches disappeared.

I could not avoid comparing the Temple (at least the Mormon Temple) to the massage. In the case of the massage my body was relieved of some pain and restored to its best condition. Similarly, when I spend time in the Mormon Temple, serving others, I come back feeling a lot better, with my spiritual senses and my intellect reinvigorate and in better “tune” with God and life.

I know that many people who have never been in a Mormon Temple wonder why not everybody can go into one of them.

Perhaps this is part of the answer. To go inside a temple we need to be prepared so that the proper atmosphere is maintained and people who enter can receive the spiritual benefits they are looking for. Moreover, everybody can qualify to enter one of those temples and receive the blessing of an eternal marriage and family and spiritual peace. He or she only needs to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and keep the commandments….

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Jul

14

A new official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the only true Mormon Church) website offers a very direct and clear message to those who want to know the truth about Mormons and Poligamy.

The new website Mormons and Polygamy is amazingly clear.

The Mormon Church or the LDS Church iS NOT the FLDS Church.

As explained in the website:

  1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn’t allow anyone practicing polygamy to be a member.
  2. Polygamy was part of our past, for about 50 years in the 19th century. But it is not part of our present. Polygamy was officially discontinued in 1890  —  118 years ago.
  3. When practiced by Mormons in the 19th century, polygamy was quite unlike the depictions of polygamous groups now seen on TV. For instance, a woman had freedom of choice as to whom she would marry. She made her own decisions about life, education and personal pursuits and did not isolate herself from the world.

I think that this last point is particularly important. Beyond the fact that Mormons do NOT practice polygamy now and they have not for more than 110 years, they way the practiced it was very different from what we see on TV.

Finally, and this is my personal view, not necessarily the Church’s, even what we see in TV about the FLDS Church is often exaggerated and distorted.

In short:

  1. True Mormons do not practice polygamy
  2. When they used to practice polygamy they did it in a different way
  3. Not all the bad things shown about the FLDS are true

A good video from our beloved true prophet, the late President Gordon B. Hinckley (very different from Warren Jeffs, self proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church), explains a little more about the standing of the Mormon Church about Polygamy:

“This Church has nothing whatever to do with those practicing polygamy.” The late Gordon B. Hinckley, speaking about the clear distinction between the Church and polygamous sects.

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