Family Matters: For Time and All Eternity

On February 9, 2015, at around 3.30 pm, I was carrying Czerinah Ellah and walking along Session Road with my husband, Anatolin and my third child, Amulek when I badly judged the last step that was in different step and stride lengths. There was no grillage for walkways or any safety warning. I lost my balance and dropped my baby. I couldn't stand up due to my badly hurt ankle. A police officer stationed in the area then called for an emergency and a few minutes later, an ambulance picked me up and our baby and hurried us to Baguio General and Medical Center-ER. Fortunately,our baby Ellah was just fine and after monitoring, they didn't find any unnatural behavior from her. However, after checking my x-ray result, I was told by the resident Ortho Doctor Dacanay that I got a Trimalleolar Fracture and needed surgery. I decided to go home for a while and think over the surgery. I got a temporary cast. We traveled to Manila Orthopedic Center to get a second opinion but felt that doct...

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 ...