Chinese Mormon Christian Family For Eternity

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I gratefully testify that an eternal perspective of gospel conversion and temple covenants can help us see rich blessings in each generation of our forever families.

The first convert in our Gong family to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is our mother, Jean Gong. As a teenager in Honolulu, Hawaii, she listened; she knew; she was baptized and confirmed; she is continuing in faith. Faithful Church members helped my mother so that she had gospel friends, Church callings, and continued nourishment by God's good word. In today's parlance each new convert, young single adult, those returning to Church activity, and others bless generations when they become fellow Saints in the household of God. 1

One family who nurtured my mother was that of Gerrit de Jong Jr. A linguist who loved the language of the heart and Spirit, Grandpa de Jong tickled my little boy imagination by sayings like "Blackberries when red are green." Today, speaking of electronic handheld devices, I tell young friends, "Blackberries read in Church make green bishops blue."

My parents, Walter and Jean Gong, were married three times: a Chinese ceremony for family, an American ceremony for friends, and a sacred ceremony in the house of the Lord for time and eternity.

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[omiolo]

“We cannot see the future with precision, but we can know what the Lord intends to accomplish and what it will take [for] each of us to qualify personally to participate,” President Eyring said. Education is a subject he has often addressed, during his tenure as President of Ricks College (now BYU–Idaho), while serving as Church Commissioner of Higher Education, during his service as an Apostle, and as a Counselor in the First Presidency.

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@omiolo Education is the key to overcoming ignorance.

[pangeanet]

@Deafboyasian that is completely untrue there is no validity to this. My brother was married in the temple to a girl from Japan, a Japanese National. Your lies hold no water or validity I have seen it myself.

[omiolo]

Teri Green Crockett, 55, waited until almost the last moment to pursue a lifelong dream and audition for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

"Fifty-five is the last year you can try out, and you can be in the choir until you're 60, so I would have five wonderful years," she said in an interview Monday at her parents' Rancho Mirage home.

[omiolo]

Cover contest: LDS Publisher is hosting a "2010 Book Cover Contest." Click the top post for the rules, and then scroll down through for all the categories. And vote for your favorite covers from 2010 LDS fiction publications! Fun!

[omiolo]

The importance of education is a recurring theme both in the scriptures and in the teachings of latter-day prophets and apostles. Church members have repeatedly been counseled to obtain all the education they can and to prepare themselves to contribute wherever they are.

[MormonsLoveFamilies]

@Deafboyasian I want you to know that God loves you.

[omiolo]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is about to begin work on a major film project focused on the New Testament. The Church won't be filming on location in Israel, but will use a large area of property in Utah County where a set of Jerusalem is being built.

The set is not for a full-length movie about the Bible. Producers say they are creating scriptural stock footage to be used in a variety of LDS Church productions.

[omiolo]

@Deafboyasian did you watch the video? You are clearly and sadly confused.