Just So You Know

This is who I am, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All my life, glad to be, and thankful for it. 

In a sense, I am the church. That is, what you see in me reflects upon the church and everyone else in it. (I'd better be good.) In my life many people have told me they don't like Mormons but I'm different. Well, maybe and maybe not. I don't think so. Maybe I'm the only Mormon they have known close up. 

Or the difference in me could be that I don't talk like I'm from Utah. But what I am is, largely, a result of how I was raised, and I was raised a Mormon. 

I believe in God. I believe in his son, Jesus Christ. I believe in the Holy Ghost. I believe in prayer and know personally about answers to prayer. I believe in absolutes, like truth, good, law, and love. I believe in revelation and in personal revelation (Holy Ghost, remember), in prophets and spiritual gifts. I believe the Priesthood of God was restored to the earth and know of its power in my own life. I believe that faith also is powerful, and I have been blessed with great faith.