What is Institute?

I Am a Son of God

We are all the Sons and Daughters of God. As long as we are doing what is right, when trials come the Lord will be on our side and He will Fight with us!
Elder Matthews

We believe in Christ: Personal testimony

I Believe in Christ. I know he lives, I know that he is the son of God. I know he is the savor and redemer of the world I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and I know that He loves me. I know he Lives!
Elder Matthews

Why Mormons Build Temples

       From the days of the Old Testament, the Lord has commanded His people to build temples-sacred structures where He could teach, guide, and bless them. For example, the Lord told the Israelites to build a portable tabernacle that would be their temple while they traveled in the wilderness

        When Jesus Christ was on the earth, the only existing temple was known as the Temple of Herod. Jesus was often found in this temple 

       After the rejection and deaths of Jesus's Apostles, there were no temples on the earth for many centuries. When the gospel of Jesus Christ was restored in the early 1800s, the Lord again commanded His people to build temples. 

       The earliest temples of the restored Church were built in Ohio, Illinois, and eventually in Utah. Today, the Church has 133 operating temples around the world. Regardless of the place or time period, temples are the most sacred place on earth-a place where earth and heaven meet and where we feel close to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.

What Matters Most

Are Mormons Christians?

Yes We Are

Elder Matthews

Roto Rooter Just a little farther

A few days ago Elder Child and I were at a members home who was having some problems with their drain and flooded their basement, (they had some family over and they think that one of the grand children flushed something.) So while we were there they called the Roto Rooter Man. When he got there he got his machine and took it down stairs and he said how this thing is 130ft and it should get to the problem so he turn it on and starts feeding it down the drain. He starts going and going and going down the drain. When he gets half way he does not hit anything, so he keeps on going until he hits the end of the line and he has hit nothing. So he sends Elder Child and I out side to the tank to see if we could hear splashing water. We ran outside to the whole in the ground and opened it, and we could not hear anything. Then he looks at the home owner and says your going to have to dig up the line and call me back then I put it in there and we should get it that way so the owner says okay and looks discouraged. Then he why don't we push the machine closer to the drain and get all we can out of it, "Okay" the Roto Rooter man said with an annoyed look on his face and so he pushes it as close as it could get to the drain, about 2ft and it hit something and the drain starts draining. Then Elder Child ran out side and looked in the hole and he could see water moving and could hear it splashing around. The Roto Rooter man said when we did that we really went 131ft. After all was done and the Roto Rooter man left we got talking and the home owner said, "How often is that the case? When we go all we think we can go and then push a little more and something great happens?" We all need to push a little more. Just take one more step, just go a little farther.
Elder Matthews