My Grandmother 's Parents On My Dad 's Side Essay

A couple months back, Mom suggested I write a letter explaining my future intentions with Nick since I am much more eloquent in letter than in verbal discussion. Recently I’ve felt compelled to complete this letter as our discussions have become more blatantly focused on the eventual blending of our lives.

Although The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) considers itself unequivocally as a Christian church, there are number major differences between traditional or mainstream Christians and the Mormon Church. This research paper primarily focuses on identifying major areas of differences between the mainstream branches of Christianity (Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant - as a group) and the Mormon Church.

2. Nathaniel self-identifies with the Anabaptist denomination for his own personal beliefs. He also identifies with the Methodist church for most of his religious traditions. When I first learned this I was a little confused, in his own words, the Anabaptists “are similar to Mennonite brethren and opposite of Baptists, or rather, not associated with Baptists in any beliefs or practices.” Nathaniel was raised under extremely religious parents, who were also raised under religious parents. When I asked him about his religious history, he chuckled, and told me that basically everyone in his family is an ordained minister. He said that one of his uncles and one of his grandfathers are the only two members of his entire extended family that are not ordained ministers. Religion was always a major part of his families’ lifestyle. Around the age of six is when he was old enough to understand the very basic concepts that there is a “God” that created the world and died for him to go to heaven. Nathaniel also grew up in the same private school as I did. He was revealed Christianity at a

As the oral stories were told, both sides of my family were a part of “The Great Black Migration” from the south during in the early part of the 20th century. My father’s family came from Maryland and mother’s family came from Virginia. They came north with the familiarization of the Pentecostal/Holiness church because that denomination was rooted in the south. In 1922, the Elder Fords and Spellmans became members of the mother church, The Mount Olive Holy Temple, located at Broad and Jefferson Street. Mount Olive Holy Temple was on the site of a Community Social Administration Building, now owned by Temple University. The church is now located at Broad and Oxford Street. In the nineteen fifty, my mother and father met at Mount Olive Holy Temple and soon married. From the day of my conception, my Holiness mother was “baptized, saved and filled with the Holy Ghost” which encoded me with the proclivity to be spiritually sensitive and intuitive when I crossed path with the religion of Vodou. It is the commitment/devotion; shouting/dancing; pouring out of the Holy Ghost/Loa Mounting

The city of Watertown and the surrounding area has a strong heritage of Scandinavian settlers, especially Swedes, who hold predominantly Lutheran beliefs. Meanwhile, Irish also moved into the area and made up the towns Catholic population. I am a byproduct of these two groups on my father’s side; my grandmother is an Irish Catholic and my Grandpa a Swedish Lutheran. That side of my family grew up in the Watertown area and is descendants of immigrants who moved into the area. My Grandparents have been married over sixty years and continue to go to their separate churches (Immaculate Conception Church and Peace Lutheran). The origins of Trinity Lutheran Church and Peace Lutheran Church in Watertown date back to 1858 when the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Gotaholm Congregation was founded just outside of town. In 1890,

No matter the age, children are always precious human beings in this world and leaving them for just a few minutes can be a life changer, such as something unspeakable that can happen to them at any given time. When having a tight schedule parents don’t tend to think clearly, especially if they’re in a rush. Any parent would want their children to have a safe healthy life, knowing that they are in good hands. Leaving a child from the ages 0-10, by themselves shouldn’t be an option to consider. Children at those ages like to explore and figure out no things, even like to wander off, that isn’t safe for anyone, especially as little as they are.

My family claims to be religious, but most are content with being “Sunday-morning” Christians. If it were not for my great-grandmother, I probably would be the same as the rest of my family. She was the only one who truly supported my later decision to pursue God instead of flirt around Christianity. I would go to services on Sunday mornings, but that was about as

The purpose of a student construing a genogram is to help a student gain an understanding of his/her family background. By gaining knowledge of one family it can help the student assist other understand how to help their clients. However, genograms backbone is a graphic depiction of how different family member are biologically, legally, and emotionally related to one another from one generation to the next (McGoldrick, Gerson &Petry, 2007, p.21). A genogram display “family information graphically in a way that provides a quick gestalt of complex family patterns; as such they are a rich source of hypotheses about how clinical problem evolve in the context

We practiced the Christian belief system on my mother’s side. Frequently, we would attend church with her or my grandparents. They would frequently drop us off in the youth group where they would attempt to teach us the religious practices via cartoons and coloring books. Our grandparents took us on every possible church event in the

The Catholic church is the one I grew up in. Attending the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has brought a fullness to my soul from the couple times I first went to the mass. I prayed everyday asking Heavenly Father if his plan for me is to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. My answer came to me when attending mass with one of the State Conference’s. As simple as I wish it was, challenges have come up ever since I have received this sign. My family tradition of the Catholic religion is causing difficulties in this decision, no matter how I explain why I am making this decision. Plans are changed; now when it will be the time I am of age to make these decisions thoroughly, I will get baptized. Even

Before my sister and I were born, my mother’s family was Presbyterian and my father’s side was Episcopalian, however they’re families were never as religious as our family was when my sister and I were baptized into the Catholic church as the age of seven. When I was a little girl, my family decided to attend my father’s Episcopalian Church, which mainly had to do with his parents’ approval of our family. However, we didn’t attend that church for long, and I know this because the only memory I have was looking down at my vermillion velvet shoes and the way they matched the color of the carpet of the church. When my sister and I were five, my mother decided to send us to St. Mary Catholic School. In second grade, my sister and I were baptized

The reason I am the way I am today is due to cultural and personal factors. Cultural and personal factors include where I have been raised, how I was raised, and what I personally have experienced. Growing up, my grandfather was a preacher and I was raised as a Baptist. In middle school, I had a chance to explore other denominations such as Pentecostal. Everyone that I grew up with went to the same church except me. I got permission from my parents to start going to a Pentecostal church with my friends and I went to a Pentecostal church until I was in the eighth grade. After the eighth grade, I started going back to a Baptist church and haven’t looked back ever since. I am thankful that my parents gave me a chance to explore a different

DAAAAA DA DA DA DA DAAAAAAAA DA DA. I still remember the feeling in my stomach as I watched the flashing chandelier rise to the ceiling right above my head.  To think that I did not want to be there in the first place. Boy had my mom proved me wrong. It had all started at my Grandparents 50th anniversary celebration…

. My dad’s father had other children, a son and a daughter, Dennis and Denise. They both have two children, one boy and a girl. Though my Aunt Denise son was killed in 2009. We all were pretty close when I was younger. I remember we all use to play together. Then we just disconnected and I’m not sure why. My uncle Dennis has a daughter, Samantha who is a year younger than me, we were in the same grade. We had reconnected years later in the eighth grade, being that we were in the same class together. We actually sat next to each other but didn’t speak to each other until middle school year. We become close and hung out all the time. We stop talking to each other about three years ago because I caught her in multiple lies, including talking and lying about my parents. I didn’t want to deal with her anymore after that. As of today, we still don’t speak but we recently became friends on Facebook and like and comment on each other’s pictures here and there. Other than that, that’s all I know about my dad’s side. It never made sense to me nor have I tried to figure out why. I feel like my mom side makes up for the lack there of on my dad’s side. On holidays my grandma Bertha and Uncle Charles do celebrate with my mom’s side and always has.

My family came to American in the mid-1800’s from Germany. My ancestors were farmers, but sadly that does not stand true today. Maybe a garden here and there, but nothing quite like we use to. My family now has a wide spread of different jobs ranging from Ministry to Human Resources Specialist. My grandma on my mother’s side has recently passed away and for the majority of my life she did not work due to health problems. When she did work, she worked for a pottery in a local town of Robinson, Illinois. My grandfather on my mother’s side was originally from Kentucky and he was in the Air Force during his younger years and then as he began to settle down he worked for Marathon also in Robinson, Illinois. My grandma on my father’s side was the oldest of her 6 siblings and worked for ER More when the business was still afloat. She later worked for the local People’s State Bank of Newton, Illinois. My grandfather on my father’s side was similar to that of my grandmother on my mother’s side because he has not worked for all of my life due to the twelve surgeries he has had. He once worked at the same pottery that my grandmother worked for. My mother, 44, has worked for The Hershey Company in Robinson, Illinois for the majority of her life. She started at the bottom and is now the Human Resource Specialist of the plant and is the best at what she does. Conveniently, my dad also has worked for Hershey the majority of his life and he does the inventory for the plant. My parents met