So since I'm unable to go to church since I still have strep, I thought I'd take this opportunity to bear my testimony of eternal marriage to you guys.
If I had to sum it up in a few words, I would leave it at this: eternal marriage is worth the wait.
Husband and I are just weeks away from our first anniversary (August 30th) and I am grateful every day that I made the choice years ago to wait for a temple marriage. I set goals for myself, and for my future spouse. I'm thankful that I found a worthy guy who not only holds the priesthood, but is loving, kind, goofy, responsible, and going to make a wonderful father someday. And when I wake up next to him every morning and realize that I can keep this man for eternity...I can't even describe how precious that knowledge is to me. Our marriage isn't perfect (no marriage is), but through prayer and scripture study together, we're learning day by day how to overcome our pride or shortcomings and work together to solve our problems.
There are going to be times where you feel like you aren't meant to get married, or that you don't have the option to marry someone else LDS. But I promise that that is NOT true!
Convincing us that we are unable to get married in the temple is just another way that he makes us feel worthless, and pulls us farther away from Heavenly Father. Don't let him win. Never let yourself believe that you are not worth a temple marriage, because you are. No matter what your past holds. The Atonement is there to make us clean again; to give us the opportunity to enter the temple again.
Everyone deserves to find that special person who will love them not only for every day of this earthly life, but for every day of eternity.
Keep pressing forward, keep working towards a temple marriage. You will find your eternal companion someday, and it'll all be worth it. I promise.
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