Marriage

By Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Why marriage? How can you make your marriage last forever? Why would you want to be wed only until death do you part? Is not there some way to be united as husband and wife, and as families, not only for time, but for all eternity, even after death, and even after resurrection? If you love someone, would you not seek out a way to be together beyond this fleeting but essential experience we call mortal life? What pitfalls threaten marriage and how can we recognize them in time to change course.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ilyan Kei Lavanway
• Release date: May 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310641312

Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Ilyan Kei Lavanway is a proliferate yet undiscovered and unheralded Christian author. He served as a full-time missionary for two years in Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1986-1988. Since 2005, he has written and published over two dozen books of various lengths, ranging from a few pages to almost five-hundred pages. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Master of Science degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.Mr. Lavanway is married and has an autistic son who has Down's syndrome. Mr. Lavanway grew up in Wenatchee and Waterville, Washington State. He is the oldest of nine siblings, seven of whom are living. He spent his high school summers driving wheat trucks and combines during harvest, earning cash to support his first love, the love of flight. He was an avid private pilot in his teens.Ironically, for all his love of aviation, Mr. Lavanway's fourteen years in the United States Air Force never landed him a flight crew assignment. Nope. He was kicking it subterranean school in a capsule beneath the North Dakota plains as an ICBM launch officer for his first four years of service, followed by a year of really uninteresting work in a vault, on base. His next two years took him up near the Canadian border, to the giant, phased array space surveillance and early warning radar site outside Cavalier, North Dakota.Then, he was off to California. Academic assignments filled the final seven years of his military service. By the time he was medically retired from active duty, he had discovered his passion for writing.Since life has thrown him a few curves that make it impractical for him to return to flying airplanes any time soon, he has poured his heart into the written word.Mr. Lavanway feels he has a God-given gift and responsibility to express eternal principles that will point sincere readers to the scriptures, to the living apostles, to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, and ultimately to a personal relationship with God the Father, and with God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Ghost.

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Marriage

A talk by Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Saturday, 30 May 2015

for a wedding service at

Victorias First Ward

Cadiz Philippines Stake

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Published by Ilyan Kei Lavanway at www.smashwords.com.

This talk contains quotes from General Authorities of

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Contents

Opening Remarks

A Proclamation to the World

Elder Boyd K. Packer on Marriage

Excerpt from upcoming book titled Arrivers

Continuation of Elder Packer's remarks on Marriage

Personal Testimony

About Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Books by Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Contact Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Opening Remarks

Maayong gabi, Brothers and Sisters. Bishop Sipe asked me to talk about marriage. I pray that