Friends and family, So this is the first time I'm actually sending this. As many of you know I'm bad at all things technology. I usually sent this to my mom, who then logged in and forwarded it on or something like that. Today is the day I try it myself! So you might get this once, twice, three times, or no times! Gotta love trouble shooting. So today I will share part of my testimony. I won't share any stories or any details of what I've been doing here besides that I've been working and serving and trying to be better and invite others to do the same. No stories or experiences this week because I feel a need to express what I believe without distraction. God lives. He loves us. He is involved in His work and glory to bring about our eternal life. He is all knowing and all powerful. There is not and will not be a task too great that is beyond His power or that surpasses His ability. There is not and will never be a truth He doesn't already know. His plan for our salvation is flawless and unchanging. There is no need and will not be a need to change an unchangeable plan, to perfect a perfect plan, or to refine a refined plan. It is t a plan that is as eternal as God Himself and we are to act in accordance with that plan. We may not and frankly do not know or understand all the details, but we know enough to play our parts and do our duty. One of the great pieces of His plan, the fundamental unit of society, and the binding tie that holds us all together is His ordained version of a group of individuals coming together in a unity known as "the family." The family is of God and was instituted by Him back when Adam and Eve walked this earth. Marriage between a man and a woman is how He intended us to marry and be given in marriage. The family is not something that has been delegated to us to destroy and defame at our discretion. We have no authority to redefine what The Almighty has defined. I do not say this to unrighteously and disrespectfully offend or contend with others. But I stand by my Father in Heaven and declare to the world that the family is of God and marriage is to be had in the way He organized it. I respect the opinions and stances and rights, privileges, and beliefs of everyone everywhere, and I ask that everyone everywhere respect mine. There will always be a diversity of opinions, but there will never be a diversity of truth. Truth is as complete, perfect, and unchangeable as God, and if it were to change with time, it would cease to be truth and God would cease to be God. BUT GOD WILL NOT CEASE TO BE GOD. He is eternal. Truth is eternal. My determination to stand by those truths is also eternal, and I boldly declare that in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. I hope everyone has an amazing week and finds ways to stand for truth in a loving and peaceable way. Truths must be defended, but the root of God's truth is love. May we all defend truth the way Christ defended truth, through pure love. Love, -Elder Moon
