About a month or so ago I was asked to share my testimony of how the gospel has changed my life in Relief Society. I thought I'd share it here as well.
To say the gospel has changed my life would be an understatement. It has given me two things that I never had before - hope and peace. President Smith talks about how he's seen the gospel change people. How he's seen people who were discouraged, living in darkness, and those that were questioning the purpose of their being become happy and content and that has definately been my experience. I had no hope that things could be better. The only thing I wanted was a sense of peace, that my life wasn't a mistake, that there was a reason I was alive and I had never felt that. Not of lack of trying. I always somehow knew that peace could only come from God but I had no idea how to have a relationship with him. I went to many different churches over the years and in the end I was left with the same feeling of despair, that it wasn't right and I didn't belong. I thought maybe it was me. Maybe I wasn't capable of letting God in. It's a very lonley
place. It's a very hopeless place. Then, I was introduced to the gospel. I don't remember what I was reading in the Book of Mormon but I do remember that undeniable sense of calmness and peace that I felt for the first time. I knew instantly that felling was what I was looking for. The difference of how I felt could be compared to being in the middle of a raging storm where you're just struggling to survive and then the storm breaks and everything is just calm and still. It's a very comforting feeling and it's a feeling that has become stronger. The gospel has given me hope and the assurance that there is a purpose for my life. To go through this experience, to know what it's like to go from living in that dark empty place, to knowing what it's like to feel peace and contentment is life changing. To have felt that change left me no doubt that this church is true.
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