I'm a Mormon

Mormons are yet again on the news and on websites everywhere! But one thing I love that the Church is doing is the new campaign called "I'm a Mormon". It's getting a lot of publicity, some good some bad. But if you go to Yahoo under 'Mormon ads unique message' you can read the latest article featuring Joy Monahan, the surfer. And then if you go to Mormon.org you can see all the awesome videos of the "I'm a Mormon" campaign and you'll even find my bishop and his family on there too (Julie Hess)! Pretty cool. At least one thing I know I can count on, the church will always be true and that I will always be a Mormon.

Proposition 8

Well, it happened again. Prop 8 to "protect and preserve marriage as a man and a woman" was overturned yet again. What is wrong with California legislators? Isn't two separate voting times enough for you? I think it's pretty clear that California wants to preserve marriage the way it should be.



The Church released a statement that expresses their concerns:

“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regrets today’s decision. California voters have twice been given the opportunity to vote on the definition of marriage in their state and both times have determined that marriage should be recognized as only between a man and a woman. We agree. Marriage between a man and a woman is the bedrock of society.
“We recognize that this decision represents only the opening of a vigorous debate in the courts over the rights of the people to define and protect this most fundamental institution—marriage.

“There is no doubt that today’s ruling will add to the marriage debate in this country, and we urge people on all sides of this issue to act in a spirit of mutual respect and civility toward those with a different opinion.”

It is no doubt we are in the last days. Even our own country, the promised land, has so many things wrong with it. Our future hangs in the balance of those in Congress, why is it like that? Anyway, I'm glad to know that I have a God who truly does watch over our country and whatever does happens, it happens for a reason. He'll come again soon and the whole world will truly see what He has in store for us.

My Eternal Families!

A saturday with the Antis's

yesterday was a funfilled day... we drove the 1 hour and precisely 10 minutes to Los Angeles via navigation by our new TomTom :) to meet up with my father-in-law David and his lovely wife Julie for brunch at noon. We ate at the Novel Cafe in Westwood, right down the street from UCLA. We ate, talked, and talked some more. Its fun to get together with them whenever we can. They are searching for an apartment in Los Angeles area. Big move from NYC if you ask me! After that Aaron and I went to the Los Angeles Temple and walked around it. Its such a beautiful temple! Its somewhat placed like the Rexburg Temple, on top of a large hill for the whole city to see.







Then we headed to the place where "i want that! i want this! that too!!" is every other sentence coming out of my mouth. IKEA. That place is amazing, a piece of HGTV right in front of your eyes to embrace. We are in the middle of furnishing our new apartment looking for practically everything. The only thing we actually have is couches. We need basically everything else. So IKEA is the place to go. I think the only thing we actually got was pillows and cool covers for them. We actually get to design a place cuz we're not moving for at least one year.... possibly two! yay! :)


Then headed home and made some dinner.. and watched this awesome movie!


A great way to spend a Saturday if you ask me. Now if only I could find a job to buy all those things we need...