President Gordon B. Hinckley

This past week the prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latterday Saints died. Although it is a sad time in our church it is also a time of happiness. My heart goes out to his family and those who are grieving. In our church we believe in a life after death, and the ability to be married to one's spouse even after death. This is such a happy principle when we think about how on this earth we are married as a husband and wife and then we are suppose to go through the rest of our life working with this person. Why would God then sever this relationship? You work most of your life in order to make this marriage work, then to only have it destroyed during death. I know that when I find the right person i want to be able to know that even if one of us dies that I will see and be with them again.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have your best friend die and then have to keep the church going. I will always look at him with the highest respect. He is the Prophet that I will always remember, because he was the one that gave me guidance through my teenage and my childhood. He will always be remembered in my mind as a loving, caring, and fun prophet. He had such a great love for the youth in the church. He had such a great Christlike attitude. He loved everyone and made sure that they knew it all the time. He will always be my Prophet.

I will always remember going to General Conference(which is like a big meeting for the whole church across the world, it is broad casted everywhere if not on TV then on radio) and getting the opportunity to sit up so close to the Prophet. I remember turning to my dad and saying that I could actually see the white of his eyes. It was an amazing experience to hear his words of concern and love. When he said that he loved me I believed it!!! He really did love and every other person in the church.

He was an amazing man and I am excited that he is able to be with his wife again. I know that they are together, because they both lived righteously and worthy of the right to live with each other. I remember him saying that he missed his wife and so now I am excited that he is able to live with her again. There is no doubt that I will miss him, but I hope that when I cross over that I can give him a hug and say thanks for everything that he did for me. I really appreciate all the work and love he put in. And I want to tell him that I LOVE him too!!!!

I am also excited to have Thomas S. Monson as our next prophet. I am so excited that I live in a church where I know who the next prophet is and I do not have to go through the process of figuring out for myself if the person that is the new Prophet is actually called of God. I am go thankful for this blessing, because I know that he is called of God, because that is how our church works. It is amazing the work of the lord.

So I would just like to say THANKS to my President Gordon B. Hinckley!!!! I love him!!!!