Premortality was their original home. They were present during the grand council in Heaven and they supported the Father’s great plan of eternal happiness. They were very close to each other then and they were happy to have been counted among the many noble and great ones. They have kept their first estate by their faitfulness and obedience to the Father and were added upon with an opportunity to come to earth to have a body of flesh and bones as the Father has. They made good plans for their coming journey and promised to see each other in mortality. However, their greatest dilemma was that they have to pass the veil of forgetfulness and will have to totally forget all their wonderful premortal friendship and association. Yet they trust each other and developed the needed faith that they will meet again on earth. Anna Andrea came to earth ahead and Mark followed after 1/1000 year in Kolob’s calendar. True to their faith to be able to keep their second estate, they were born in the same country although farther from each other away.
Anna Andrea wandered but soon sought for a brighter way. While she was in search for truth, Mark unexpectedly emerged as an ambassador of Jesus Christ. Their meeting was so short for in a week’s time Mark was transferred to another area. However, during those short encounters of just about one or two appointments, Mark realized that a spark of premortal memory flushed and he seemed to feel a reunion with a long lost friend. His heart and mind seemed to receive echoes from eternity that Anna Andrea was the spirit woman he once sit with in the grand council in heaven. O, how he wanted to immediately reinstate and restore that long lost association, but missionary obligations are yet to be complied. Such a short meeting was so special that immediately after his mission Mark privately sought and obtained the phone number of Anna Andrea. He called her and arranged for a meeting. For reasons unknown, she committed and after more than two years they meet again in a place nothing more holier---The Manila Philippines Temple.
Perhaps the holiness of the place made Anna Andrea realize and feel as did Mark during the first time he meets her that before her eyes was the spirit man she once was very much acquainted with in the premortal existence with whom she shared plans for a more intimate relationship in mortality. In her own words this is what she had to say: “So this is what it's like to meet that person my heart knew existed but had never actually met until we found each other.” Reinstatement of commitments then ensued and restoration of premortal relationship restored. Although hesitancy and diffidence due to professional variance seemed to inhibit Mark’s worldly persuasion, yet Anna Andrea assured it is no barrier. She claims anytime ready to receive the covenants that will “keep their second estate” that they together “shall have glory added upon their heads forever and ever” (see Abraham 3:22-26). For her that is more than everything which she now enjoys.
After enjoying each others company in moments of fond and affectionate dating for a few years, and continued brief visits together in one of the holiest places on earth, they finally decided on November 11, 2017 to end and elevate the beauty of a single life and vowed to bind their two hearts as one in an exchange of eternal commitment to love each other, symbolized by the beauty of sparkling engagement rings, the exchange of which was witnessed only by the angels from heaven on guard at the Holy Temple.
Today, February 10, 2018 is the grand and glorious day when such eternal commitment will turn into a covenant and most solemn promise together in the holy altar of matrimony in a beautiful sealing room of the Cebu Philippines Temple. With hands clasped before the Holy Priesthood they will enter into a covenant in a simple ceremony to love and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, for time and all eternity. Then they will be made to stand between the mirrors of eternity to see the the unending reflection of their union as a symbol of their eternal relationship.
The excitement of the preparatory engagement relationship will today be ended, replaced with an even exciting and grand and more glorious anticipations of the coming eternal trust which Heavenly Father may reward them by sending some of His spirit children into the newly established eternal family unit.
O, how the heavens rejoice today as Mark and Ann are sealed together by the Holy Priesthood in love and eternal marriage in the House of the Lord, the efficacy, strength and influence of which are real and immovable and eternally secure. The angels rejoice as they now prepare the glory that shall be added upon Mark and Ann forever and ever.
Our warmest congratulations to the newlyweds---Mr. and Mrs. Mark and Anna Andrea Solloso Mararac!
Perhaps the holiness of the place made Anna Andrea realize and feel as did Mark during the first time he meets her that before her eyes was the spirit man she once was very much acquainted with in the premortal existence with whom she shared plans for a more intimate relationship in mortality. In her own words this is what she had to say: “So this is what it's like to meet that person my heart knew existed but had never actually met until we found each other.” Reinstatement of commitments then ensued and restoration of premortal relationship restored. Although hesitancy and diffidence due to professional variance seemed to inhibit Mark’s worldly persuasion, yet Anna Andrea assured it is no barrier. She claims anytime ready to receive the covenants that will “keep their second estate” that they together “shall have glory added upon their heads forever and ever” (see Abraham 3:22-26). For her that is more than everything which she now enjoys.After enjoying each others company in moments of fond and affectionate dating for a few years, and continued brief visits together in one of the holiest places on earth, they finally decided on November 11, 2017 to end and elevate the beauty of a single life and vowed to bind their two hearts as one in an exchange of eternal commitment to love each other, symbolized by the beauty of sparkling engagement rings, the exchange of which was witnessed only by the angels from heaven on guard at the Holy Temple.
Today, February 10, 2018 is the grand and glorious day when such eternal commitment will turn into a covenant and most solemn promise together in the holy altar of matrimony in a beautiful sealing room of the Cebu Philippines Temple. With hands clasped before the Holy Priesthood they will enter into a covenant in a simple ceremony to love and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, for time and all eternity. Then they will be made to stand between the mirrors of eternity to see the the unending reflection of their union as a symbol of their eternal relationship.The excitement of the preparatory engagement relationship will today be ended, replaced with an even exciting and grand and more glorious anticipations of the coming eternal trust which Heavenly Father may reward them by sending some of His spirit children into the newly established eternal family unit.
O, how the heavens rejoice today as Mark and Ann are sealed together by the Holy Priesthood in love and eternal marriage in the House of the Lord, the efficacy, strength and influence of which are real and immovable and eternally secure. The angels rejoice as they now prepare the glory that shall be added upon Mark and Ann forever and ever.
Our warmest congratulations to the newlyweds---Mr. and Mrs. Mark and Anna Andrea Solloso Mararac!
Thank you president =)
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