Nate: Our Family Before We Came Here

Nate is a deep thinker.  His wisdom (and wit) are some of his greatest qualities.  I love how he used what he knows about God's plan for us, and living as spirits before we came here to introduce his ideas about how our family came together.

Obviously my family was asked to speak on families.  Since I chose to do my talk this morning before church I was left with very few topics but I was still left with some really great topics to do with family.  So I decided to do my talk on our family in the pre-mortal life.

We don’t remember anything from our time in heaven before we came here, but we do know that all of us here on earth chose to be here and that we were all part of that great war in heaven. 

But here on earth we live with our earthly families the job of the family is to support, guide, and uplift.  A family can guide each other by setting a good example for one another; a family can also support each other when a family member is going through a hard time in their life.  The family can help support the individual in whatever dision that family member chooses to make.   We can also uplift one another by helping each other and by cheering someone up who feels sad.  

Before we came to this earth I think we decided who would be in our family. You don’t have to look like each other to be a family. For example look at our family.  We have three different people who are adopted and only two people who were born in to this family. In a way I look up to those people who were adopted because I can’t even begin to imagine what they went through to find the right family. I like to think of it as a big family meeting we had together as a family in heaven where we basically said, "Ok, you will be born into our family and you guys will be born into different family and you will have to find your way into our family."  Then when we got to this earth we forgot who would be in our family and how they would get to our family.  Not every family has members who have to find their way into the right family.  Some families have all their children just born in to their family but that’s ok because that was their choice they made up in heaven.

Nate then shared some of his own feelings about the wisdom of families in God's plan.  He did a great job.  Going first in church (and life) isn't easy, but he's good at paving the way.

(Link to the story of our family speaking in church.)