Thursday, March 19, 2009

My Great Grandmother Clinging to that which is of most importance

I have a great grandmother on my fathers side. She was an amazing woman, well she grew up in New Zealand and her parents at the time hated the LDS church and thought that it was an a cult. But she had her own doubts. One day when her parents were not home the missionaries dropped by and she listened to them, she had a feeling that her parents had been misguided about the church. Anyway she read the Book of Mormon and took the discussions and decided that she wanted to be baptized. When she talked to her parents about it, they said if she went through with it she would no longer be a part of the family. Well she ended up making one of the hardest decisions in her life: Whether or not to Be part of a great churcha and gospel of Christ, or stay with her family? She pondered and prayed, and decided to get baptized. So she went and did just that, however when she returned home her bags were packed with a note saying that she was now considered Not a part of the family, and to never return. Forlorn she returned to the missionaried to tell them what had happened, one of the missionaries sent her to his family in Canada, and not too much time passed before they were married in the temple. I have always loved this story of her, she had much courage and faith. She decided to follow Christ despite losing her family, but gained another family, the Family of Our Heavenly Father. She was blessed ten fold and she is a great example for me in my life and I am so grateful for her decision and I hope that I can be as faithful and devoted to the Lord as she was.