Personal Challenges | Mormon Women - Part 3

Personal Challenges

July 21st, 2010 by admin

Healing Body and Soul

Healing Body and Soul

Heather Oman

After her fourth consecutive miscarriage, Heather Oman turned to blogging to express her feelings about her experience and Mormon Mommy Wars was born. Heather also founded Living With PKD, an online community for people, like herself, with Polycystic Kidney Disease. Heather talks about what she does to take care of her body in the face of chronic illness and the important role of online support communities like the ones she’s founded.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: blog, disease, education, graduate school, LDS culture, Mormon women, washington DC

July 13th, 2010 by admin

A Tough Thing To Do

A Tough Thing To Do

Eugenia Hancock

Although promised in her patriarchal blessing that she would be married in this lifetime and be the mother of children, Genie turned 39 still single. Demonstrating exceptional patience and humility in her prayers, Genie then met and married the father of seven children. The couple has since adopted two abused teenagers as well. Genie talks about being a stepmother and the challenge of giving up one’s whole will to the Lord.

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Posted in: 51 - 60 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Single, United States - Tags: abuse, adoption, divorce, faith, infertility, LDS Family Services, LDS woman, Mormon women, motherhood, patriarchal blessing, prayer, single

June 9th, 2010 by admin

A Better Doctor, A Better Christian

A Better Doctor, A Better Christian

Ines Pinate

After serving a mission in her native Venezuela, Ines Pinate married another returned missionary only to have the marriage end three years later in a divorce. Now, with an 8-year-old son, this single mother is attending medical school. In her interview, Ines expresses her love for her Heavenly Father and explains how being a doctor helps her be a better Christian.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Conversion Stories, Divorced, English, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, Single, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad, Venezuela - Tags: conversion, convert, divorce, education, graduate school, mission, Mormon women, single, South America, Venezuela

May 26th, 2010 by admin

Finding Refuge in the Saints

Finding Refuge in the Saints

Saroeun Phin Eav

From 1975 to 1981, Saroeun Eav fought for her life and the lives of her children as she suffered under the rule of the Khmer Rouge in her native country of Cambodia. In this excerpt from her life history, Saroeun tells of death-defying escapes, bearing children in labor camps, and, eventually, her escape to the United States where she joined the Church and raised her children in the gospel.

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Posted in: 61 - 70 years old, 71+, Cambodia, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, United States - Tags: Cambodia, conversion, convert, faith, family, Mormon women, pioneers, prayer, refugee

May 4th, 2010 by admin

The Journey Is The Reward

The Journey Is The Reward

Blue

Blue married Doc thirty-five days after he returned home from his mission. Nine years later, he revealed to Blue that he didn’t actually believe in God. Blue discusses how spiritual laziness in her early marriage contributed to her husband’s crisis of faith, how her family now functions with its unusual dynamic, and why she stays in her marriage and in the Church.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, United States - Tags: atonement, Book of Mormon, BYU, faith, graduate school, mission, Mormon women, part-member marriage, temple marriage, Utah

April 20th, 2010 by admin

As Joseph in Egypt

As Joseph in Egypt

Thérèse Kanyanga

In 2000, Thérèse Kanyanga was living in the Republic of the Congo as a wife and the mother of seven children when her husband, Gilbert, mysteriously disappeared. Thérèse discovered he had been accused of treason and exiled to South Korea. For the next six years, Thérèse raised her children alone. In 2006, she was able to join Gilbert in Seoul where she was baptized into the Church.

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Posted in: 51 - 60 years old, Conversion Stories, English, Korea, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Sisters Abroad, Sisters Abroad - Tags: Africa, conversion, convert, family, Korea, Mormon women, motherhood, prayer

April 7th, 2010 by admin

When Mom Wears The Suit

When Mom Wears The Suit

Marcia Nelson

After working as the executive assistant for the editor-in-chief of Mademoiselle magazine, Marcia Nelson studied for her business school entrance exam while nursing a baby. Now, she’s enjoying a fulfilling career in finance while her husband is a freelance writer and stay-at-home dad to their two children, one of whom has had a recurring brain tumor.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: careers, education, family, finance, graduate school, Mormon women, New York

March 3rd, 2010 by admin

When Waking Up Is A Burden

When Waking Up Is A Burden

Kathryn Lynard Soper

As the mother of seven children, the last with Down syndrome, Kathy Soper is known for the emotional honesty of her writing (which includes personal essays and a book-length memoir) and her founding of Segullah, an LDS women’s literary journal. In this interview, Kathy talks candidly about her lifelong struggle with depression and the unique dynamic that exists in her family where mom and several children are working together to stay healthy.

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Posted in: Personal Challenges - Tags: BYU, depression, disease, Down syndrome, family, LDS culture, Mormon women, motherhood, Utah, writing

February 16th, 2010 by admin

Rooted In Learning

Rooted In Learning

Shannon Cox

In 2005, Shannon Cox founded Haitian Roots, an organization that sends 133 needy Haitian children to school each year. Shannon recounts the unexpected adoption of her Haitian son and the ways it opened her heart and mind to the plight of Haiti’s strong-willed people. This young mother of four affirms the unexpected course of her life is not the consequence of coincidence but divine intervention.

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Posted in: Lives of Service, Magnifying Motherhood, Personal Challenges - Tags: adoption, education, family, Haiti, humanitarian aid, Mormon women, philanthropy, prayer, service

January 26th, 2010 by admin

The Cycle is Broken

The Cycle is Broken

Myrna Castellar

After two sets of twins and a divorce, Myrna sought solace with her family. But she found little comfort at home: she fell prey to the family’s drug dealing business and lost 27 years of her life to heroin addiction. Three years ago, at the age of 51, she fell to her knees and felt the Lord’s loving embrace. She discusses the effects of her baptism on her ravaged body, her repentance process and the effect her conversion has had on her children.

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Posted in: Conversion Stories, Personal Challenges - Tags: addiction, conversion, convert, divorce, drugs, faith, missionaries, Mormon women, New York, prayer, recovering adict

December 11th, 2009 by admin

A World of Opportunities

A World of Opportunities

Karen Bybee

Karen Bybee healed from the death of her first child by throwing herself into the planning of the 1994 Soccer World Cup event. Since then, Karen has developed a career in international sports management, and has been involved with six Olympic Games, four Soccer World Cups, and numerous other international sports events. She is returning to work now after a four year hiatus at home with her teenaged sons.

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Posted in: Personal Challenges, Professional Paths - Tags: BYU, careers, mission, Mormon women, motherhood, mourning, sports, washington DC

December 11th, 2009 by admin

“They Came!”

“They Came!”

Dominique Lam-Yam

A 1983 issue of Reader’s Digest introduced Dominique Lam-Yam to the Church while she was living with an abusive father on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. She spent the next three years searching for the Church organization, with no success. Finally, two missionaries knocked on her door, launching her on a path of hope and triumph over challenge.

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Posted in: Conversion Stories, Personal Challenges, Sisters Abroad - Tags: conversion, Europe, family, Mormon women, single

December 3rd, 2009 by admin

A Road to Redemption

A Road to Redemption

Brittney Poulsen Carman

For almost four years Brittney has been writing about the 18 months she spent in Venezuela as a missionary. While she was there, her father, who was excommunicated from the Church when she was 14 and from whom she had been estranged for years, began sending her letters, photocopies from the journal he kept as a missionary in Colombia between 1973-75. This began a reconnection and reconciliation of their relationship which, by the end of her time in Venezuela, would become the most poignant and enduring conversion of her mission.

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Posted in: 31 - 40 years old, Conversion Stories, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States, Venezuela - Tags: graduate school, Idaho, mission, writing

October 19th, 2009 by admin

Beyond This Mortal Coil

Beyond This Mortal Coil

Lynn Anderson

Two of Lynn Anderson’s natural born children carried a rare genetic disease — epidermolysis bullosa (EB) — which prevents a child’s skin from growing with their body. After thirty years of nursing her children and grieving their deaths, Lynn founded an organization that raised money for EB research at Stanford University. Lynn now rejoices in a newly-approved treatment that will save the lives of many EB children.

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Posted in: 61 - 70 years old, 71+, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, Professional Paths, Professional Pursuits, United States - Tags: California, careers, disease, faith, Mormon women, motherhood

September 22nd, 2009 by admin

Faith Unto Salvation

Faith Unto Salvation

Patricia Joseph

In December 2004, Patricia’s oldest son was charged with murdering his girlfriend. Tormented with grief and unable to sleep, Patricia saw a late-night infomercial for the Church on television and called for a Book of Mormon. What she has learned about forgiveness, compassion and the warm embrace of the Saints has carried her through the crushing experience.

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Posted in: 61 - 70 years old, Conversion Stories, English, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, United States - Tags: convert, divorce, faith, Mormon women, New York

September 17th, 2009 by admin

Nothing Is Impossible

Nothing Is Impossible

Dee Dee Shipley

As the mother of eleven children — ten adopted with special needs– Dee Dee Shipley already has her hands full. But add to that 42 years of diabetes and the fact that in 2002 Dee Dee lost her sight in a heart by-pass surgery. Still, Dee Dee sees miracles every day and unfailingly puts her full trust in the Lord.

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Posted in: 41 - 50 years old, English, Magnifying Motherhood, Magnifying Motherhood, Married with children, Personal Challenges, Personal Challenges, United States - Tags: adoption, blind, faith, Mormon women, motherhood, Wisconsin

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