Week 3- Covenants and Ordinances/ Eternal Marriage.

I just wanted to bear my testimony of the importance of getting sealed in the temple by the proper authority. The only way we can gain eternal exaltation in the highest degree of heaven is through eternal marriage. Eternal marriages are not made in the temple. We must work everyday to become an eternal union by keeping our covenants and commandments by strict obedience.

Makayla, Mom and Dad on Makayla's baptism day. 

Grandma and Grandpa McIntire's Engagement Photo 

Mommy and Daddy on their Wedding Day at the Spokane Temple.

Week 2- Gender

"All human beings - male and female- are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents,and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual pre mortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose."


I wanted to bear my testimony that I know that gender is essential to our roles here on earth. We have and always will be what we have always been both male and female. The male and female characteristics and spirits compliment each other. When eternally sealed together in the temple I know that husbands and wives create the best environment to raise the spirit sons and daughters of God. I hope that my children will know how important it is to be the gender that they are and know that it is by divine design that they were born into male and female counterparts. I am so grateful for my gender role as a woman, mother, wife, and sister.  I enjoy nurturing and teaching children, as well as balancing out the fun and authoritative figure that your father has embraced as he righteously holds the priesthood. It is important that we work together to become better people and the best version of our selves. "Neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man." I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Pregnant with our sixth child and third son Hyrum.

Uncle Brandon and I as children.

Week 1-Eternal Truths

The paragraph we are focusing on this week in our class is:

"We the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His Children."

I have a deep rooted testimony that marriage is central to happiness in this life and in family life. The best way to have happiness in this life is through eternal marriage between a man and a woman. We are all created in the image of the Lord. The family has been ordained of God since before we came to this earth. We were in a family before we came to earth and we will be in a family after we leave this earth. If we seek to be like the Savior we must also strive to live in our own nuclear family unit.