Ok, someone suggested I use all or part of the testimony I gave last Sunday in church on my Mormon.org profile. Yeah, that's not sitting too well with me because
How the gospel has changed my life. The gospel has given me two things, I can with all honesty say, I had never had before - peace and hope. President Smith talked about people who where discouraged, those who were in darkness, those who questioned the purpose of their being, and that was me. I had no hope that things could be better. The only thing I ever wanted was to feel a sense of peace, that my life wasn't a mistake, that I had the right to exist in this world and I had never felt that. I always somehow knew that God was how I was going to find peace, but I had no idea how to have a relationship with him. I searched many different churches and always came away with the same feeling of despair that it wasn't right. I thought maybe it was me. Maybe I wasn't capable of letting God into my life, but then I was introduced to the Book of Mormon. I don't remember what I was reading in the Book of Mormon but I do remember when I felt that calmness for the first time. I knew instantly when I had felt it, that feeling was what I had been looking for. The difference I would liken to being in the middle of a raging storm where you're just struggling to survive and then all of the sudden the storm breaks and everything is just calm and still. That feeling of calmness has gotten stronger and it has given me hope for the first time that there is a reason that I'm here and that my life wasn't a mistake. That is how I know that this church is true.
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