So I've had time to think since my last blog. Here's what I've come up with:
I didn't really need to think about it at all. I've known these things all along. I've read my journal. I've prayed and read the scriptures. After doing all of this, I've come to a firm conviction. Yes, I would still be bold in saying that I know this is the true church even if I was being tortured, even if everything I have and everyone I love was taken from me.
I know that what I've been taught is true. Yes, there have been times when I've wavered and doubted, but those doubts have been quickly washed away when I've prayed and remembered that it has been confirmed to me many times that I know my Savior lives. I know that He was born to a virgin and that He performed many miracles.I know that He suffered for the sins of all of us in the garden of Gethsemane. I know that He was resurrected and appeared to Mary, the apostles and also to the people in the early Americas. I know that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to a fourteen year old boy named Joseph Smith to tell him that he was to restore the true church of Christ to the earth. I know that President Thomas S. Monson speaks directly to God.
I know that Heavenly Father hears my prayers. I know that when I obey Him, I am blessed with happiness and peace. I know that Christ is always with me. I know that He has already walked the path of my life. He knows what I'm feeling every second. I know that He loves me. I know that I can't comprehend how much He loves me. I know that He has saved me. He has made it possible for me to be with my Heavenly Father and those I love forever. I know that I can never repay Him.
I can say these things and stand up to the ridicule and slander that would be thrown at me because I know that they are true. I know that being ridiculed is only a small moment.
I know these things of myself. This knowledge isn't borrowed from my parents. This knowledge has been given to me from my Father in Heaven. I don't live my life this way because it's "comfortable". I live this way because I know this is what my Heavenly Father wants me to do.
I know these things, I don't just believe them. I would defend this knowledge with my life.
Oh, and I know that the Garden of Eden was in Jackson County, Missouri (hey it had to have been somewhere).
3 comments:
Great testimony Kristy! You are a great example to so many.
You're awesome. I heard the musical wasn't horrible, but vulgar like you said. The thing is, we'd see it (without the vulgarity) and laugh at ourselves and still know the church is the church of God. Others see it, and like you said, laugh at us, not with us. But it has helped the missionaries in NY hand out a TON of copies of The Book of Mormon.
I am glad you shared your thoughts on it, because I haven't been able to decide whether to read up on the plot or not.
Awesome testimony, and good for you for sharing!
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