Classes

In my writing class I've recently been working a lot on a paper that talks about some of my experiences being taught about the Gospel and other things by my parents and how those experiences have shaped my life. My dad became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was 20. Learning about the Gospel of Christ changed his life entirely, for the good. Neither of his parents practiced a religion as he grew up, and they still don't, so he didn't know hardly anything about Christ before his conversion, but now he knows so much.

Thinking about this as I wrote the paper and thinking about my parents and who they are and what they stand for, made me think more about the Doctrine and Covenants and more specifically about the people who lived in the early days of the LDS Church, at the time when the Doctrine and Covenants was written. I'm really grateful for those people who stuck to their beliefs despite the hard times they had. People hated them and physically persecuted them and even tried to kill them because of the things they believed, but they wouldn't deny God or any of the knowledge that He had given them, no matter what the earthly cost was. I'm glad they were true to God, because they set a great example for me.

I'm also grateful to my own parents and for the choices they've made. If my dad hadn't become a member of the LDS Church he probably wouldn't have met my mom (they met in Church) and I probably wouldn't exist. I'm also very grateful that they taught me about Jesus Christ and that through His Atonement I can be free from sin and death and have the chance to live with Him and Heavenly Father forever, after this mortal life.