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I believe that the universe is an ever expanding and growing entity. It's watched over by a careful, tender and loving God who seeks to glorify his creations. The universe has to keep expanding, because we keep growing and will continue to keep growing for all eternity. If it were to stop growing we would be stuck, forever children of a God, but with no ability to move forward. 

I believe that there is an afterlife. An afterlife where if we have lived worthily we can return to the presence of our God and his son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. In this life we have the chance to become Gods ourselves and to spend our time creating as well.

I believe that our beings are comprised of two parts and together (and only together) they comprise our souls. A soul is what our God has. It is a perfected resurrected body combined with our spirits that have been going through tests and trials here on earth in order to perfect them so that when we return to God we can show him our growth. A soul is not a soul without both a spirit and a body.

I believe that families were and are meant to be eternal, to last beyond just this life on earth. I believe that God has provided a way for us to be sealed for all eternity to our families. 

I believe that animals have souls just like we do. I believe that they think and feel, but on a level and in a way different than we do. This doesn't make them worth less than us, just different.

I believe that after Christ's death the world apostatized and entered a dark age where the truth was no longer on the earth in one piece. Bits were taken up by groups of men and women seeking the truth, but no one had the whole truth until one day the Father and the Son appeared to Joseph Smith, a young boy of fourteen, who sought the truth and was rewarded with not only the knowledge that it was not currently on the earth but that it would soon be restored. I also believe that Joseph Smith restored the truth upon the earth and translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God.

I believe in an Eternal and Unchangeable God who loves each of us and knows our names. I believe that his Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, came to earth and suffered for all our sins that we might return to live with him and our Father one day. 

I believe that God the Eternal Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are separate beings who each seek our eternal salvation.

I believe that the windows of revelation are not closed, that each of us can receive revelation daily if we but ask, and that the Priesthood is once more on the Earth. I believe that we have a modern day prophet who leads and guides the world today and his name is Thomas S. Monson.

These things I believe with all my heart.

Ashley Kaye Nelson

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