Marriage is the Key to Eternal Happiness

Marriage is something that God has placed on the earth to help us learn and grow and be the best version of ourselves that we can be. As we work together we can grow closer to eachother and to God, through all of lifes ups and downs, through sickness and health, through children and grandchildren, and through everything else that life throws at us. Because marriage is ordained of God, we need to respect it as the sacred ordinence that it is. Marriage is something that God holds in high esteem as he teaches us and helps us grow through it. The worlds perspective on marriage is becoming closer and closer to somthing that is there to enjoy as long as it is enjoyable. That is one of the reasons that the divorce rate is increasing so much. People are also starting to do more things out of wedlock that is disgraceful to our Heavenly Father. Things like having sexual relations and cohabitation before marriage. These things are sacred and we should treat them as such by waiting until we are married to do these things. When we let God be the third member of our marriage, we strive to grow closer to him as we strive to grow closer to eachother. This creates peace in marriage because God gives peace to all who seek it. With God as the third member of our marriage, not only do we help our spouses to grow closer to God, but we learn to rely on Heavenly Father when things are not good between us and our spouse. Heavenly Father will help us learn to be unselfish, and learn how to help our spouse so that we can keep our marriages strong. Marriage makes us think of someone else before ourselves, just like children do! Can you imagine being selfish to an infant? Telling it that you will meet its needs whenever your needs are all taken care of? Well we should not treat our spouses like that either! I am excited to get married so that I have someone to take care of me. Sometimes I realize that the things that I feel like I need to be happy are not really needs, but they are more of wants that I decide are needs. When I focus on other people's needs I realize that I don't need much to be happy. When I make other people happy, I become happy too. I hope that whoever I marry, I can make happy. In return I am sure that they will make me happy too if they are happy!!

This class is so incredibly important!

I am so excited for this class!! I am excited to take marriage prep because my life goal is to be the best mom and the best wife I can be. That is my mission here in life! Family is the most basic unit of organization in the world. Just imagine, if everyone took families seriously and continually tried to make their families the best they knew how, almost all of the worlds biggest concerns would be GREATLY improved. Divorce- there would be almost no divorce if everyone believed so strongly in the family. It would give struggling marriages a much greater reason to be worked out. More children would grow up in two parent families, and then more parents would be able to be home for their children when their children need it. Financial and educational problems- If families were so strong of an importance to everyone, parents would learn to save more so that they could provide the best future possible for their children, such as be able to support them in getting a good education. If more people are educated, the better our economy will be. Those are just a couple of examples, but I think you can get the picture. I am so excited to have my own family someday. I love my parents and my four sisters and I can't imagine what I would do without them. They are my sourse of strength along with the gospel of Jesus Christ that drives me to be a better person today that I was yesterday. I am grateful for the time and effor that is put into planning and putting together a marriage preperation class because it is the most important thing I may take out of my college career. I may or may not end up doing nursing like I am planning on now, but I know that whatever I do, I will be married and have children someday.