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Howdy My Junior Missionaries...

As Mission president, I want to re-affirm your duty to memorize D&C 4. Please tell me you have finished or that you are in the process of trying. Although that verse is about missionary work, there is much more to it!

Ok, now here's the second part. This is a thread where you can come in anytime and bare your testimony. It doesn't matter if it is short or long, all that matters is that it is Sincere. This is also a good place to come when you are down and want to be uplifted by the testimonies of others. If you're like me, sometimes you just feel "down in the dumps." For me, it helps to hear or read spiritual things. So, the more testimonies we have in here, the better.

Plus, there is no limit to how many testimonies you can post. It's not like once you bare your testimony, you are out...you can always share it again or share a part of your testimony you didn't share before. Sometimes, things happen that raise our testimonies. Share those thing too, if you like.

I want you to know, this is not an order, just a suggestion. However, we have been taught that one way to wash our sins away is by sharing our testimonies. I don't know about the rest of you, but I could always use a little cleaning up!

I'd like to share a rather nice experience I had this past Sunday at church (am I ever glad that I stayed even when my mom tried to convince me to come home).

We were having a Relief Society lesson on the First Vision, and the teacher was one of my favorite ladies in my ward. We've only been in the ward for a little less than a year, but she already feels like a third grandma to me. She was wrapping up the lesson when she made this simple statement, and I could tell she meant every word of it: "Heavenly Father loves you, sisters. He cares about you." And for the first time in a long time, that thought penetrated my heart (because if this sister says it, it MUST be true). All I could do for the next few minutes was sit there and think about it. Of course it was true. I had really been taking it for granted my entire life, like how we tend to take it for granted that our earthly parents love us. But, in that moment, I think I realized a little bit more of what it truly means to be daughters (and sons) of the great God of the universe, who loves us vastly more than any earthly father ever could.

So, I'd like to testify to everyone who reads this, God loves you more than you will ever comprehend in this life. Even if you have earthly parents who tend to be inadequate towards your needs, or don't show love towards you often, know that Heavenly Father is NOT a flake. Perfect love may be harder to comprehend for some of us than it may be for others, but it's there, brothers and sisters. And once you recognize how real it is, it's going to be so much easier to recognize the Lord's hand in everything as you go about your day. It will also be easier to see that He loves all of his other children, too, regardless of whether or not they reciprocate that love or even know He exists, which should be incentive enough to treat everyone around us with love and kindness. And from there, if you let it, the spiritual snowball will keep rolling and getting bigger until you really begin to appreciate what true joy is. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

I have a testimony. I have a catholic friend who is trying to get me to leave the church but I won't. And Gryphex gave me a good answer to one of the questions she kept hitting me with. Thanks Gryphex~