Family Matters: For Time and All Eternity

Let me share how our paths crossed, how our relationship blossomed over the years, and how our commitment to each other and our shared faith in   The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints   have been foundational in our journey together. Anatolin and I were both raised by our goodly parents. I was born in San Jose Del Monte Bulacan on February 21, 1982. When I was two years old, our family moved to Bauang, La Union, where we met Sister Lumacad and Sister Mcnutt, missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Our family accepted the gospel on June 10, 1984 and was sealed at the Manila Philippines Temple on February 1, 1986, two years after it's dedication.  Anatolin was born in San Jose Agoo, La Union on June 25, 1982. Their whole family was baptized in the church in May 1988.  Anatolin said he first saw me when we were twelve years old at a Regional Conference where an apostle of the Lord, Elder Quentin L. Cook, presided over the San...

Why do some people "make it" and some people do not? Why some people succeed and others fail? The key difference between success and failure is not merely hard work or superior intelligence, but the ability to delay gratification. The Stanford University Study Children were left in a room, each with a marshmallow, and given the choice of eating it then or 15 minutes later, when they were promised an extra marshmallow as a reward for waiting. Some ate theirs right away. Others waited. But the study's real significance came a decade later when the researchers discovered that the children who held out for the reward had become more successful adults than the children who had gobbled their marshmallow immediately. I learned a lot of principles from this simple marshmallow theory. Delayed gratification or d eferred gratification  is the ability to wait in order to obtain something that one wants. This ability is usually considered to be a personality trait that is ...