Family Matters: For Time and All Eternity

           Anger is an emotion we all experience. My spiritual and secular study, as well as my own life experience, has taught me of the reality of the fact that anger is not considered a primary emotion or instinctive response. It is a choice.  Many people, myself included, have at one time or another felt that anger is a primary emotion as it is the first response we have to negative things that happen to us. Everybody feels anger at different times, to varying degrees. Indeed, this opinion is so common in modern society that new programs are created in anger management, and articles written on the upsides of anger.     In his blog entitled “Anger Problems: A Smokescreen for Fear-Shame Phobia” posted in January 2009, Dr. Stosny broadly depicts anger problems as "a smokescreen for fear-shame phobia." The problem of anger is of vital importance not only in our daily emotional life, but in the genesis of m...

I just can't believe that my husband Anatolin and I just finished the Fall 2019 Semester at PathwayConnect Worldwide with an "A". Personally, I enrolled in the BYU PathwayConnect  Program because I want to become a more delightful wife to my husband and an exemplary mother to my four home-schooled children who grow up way too fast. A delightful woman should be developing the sacred qualities that God has given His daughters to excel as a wife and mother: patience, kindliness, a love of children, and a desire to care for them.  She should be acquiring a good education to keep with the demands of motherhood. President Russel M. Nelson taught, “We need women who are organized and women who can organize. We need women with executive ability who can plan and direct and administer; women who can teach, women who can speak out. ... We need women with the gift of discernment who can view the trends in the world and detect those that, however popular, are shallow or dange...

I've had a wonderful English Teaching career online that has spanned for more than 10 years. In my Ebook , "Homebased Work for Mommies, All you need to know about Teaching English Online" , I tell you about how I became a freelance Online English Teacher while doing my daily mommy tasks to my four children. I give some tips I've learned along the way to help you do the same.  We might define success differently but in life, almost everybody wants to be more successful by earning more money, have a nicer home, a nicer car and enjoy the good things in life. However, in the process of achieving and acquiring these things, our family relationships are compromised. Some work for hours outside the home or even outside the country, leaving their families behind. Before getting into our online business, I had a regular full-time 8-5 job outside the home for 5 years. I knew how it felt to miss attending a child's PTA meetings, school activities, and e...

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 ...