On Testimonies

Here's the thing.

Throughout my life there have been ups and downs. Highest of highs, lowest of lows.  There's been times where I have questioned the very existence of God and times when I could feel Him guiding my life.

But where does all this up and down leave a 26 year old girl, who is a wife, who is a mother, who still has no idea what she wants to do with her life?  For some time it seems like I've been gliding on this wave of... complacency?  In the back of my mind, I knew what I believed.  Still that seed of doubt pops up out of no where.  Not big, hardly perceptible.  And then I'm trying to reconcile life with what I believe, and what I do.

But then the trials hit.  The times when you have to decide what you are going to do, what you are going to stand up for.  And for me, this is the time when I feel my testimony of Christ, of belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the most.  These are the times I know without any doubt that what I believe is true.

I believe Christ bled for us in Gethsemane.

I believe He died on the cross and rose the 3rd day, so that we might all live again

I believe Christ is our Savior and without him all would be lost.

I believe that Joseph Smith Jr. truly saw God the Father and Jesus.  That he restored the true church of Christ to the earth again.

I believe in modern revelations from modern day prophets.

I believe that the Holy Ghost can guide you through your life through baptism and the confirming power of the priesthood.

I believe that the family is sacred and a part of God's plan for his children.  And no matter how the world may attack this fundamental unit, that it is the center of all things great and small.

I believe in the love God and Christ have for all people.  And that we need to love our fellow man as well.  There may be differences, there may be disagreements, but there should ALWAYS be love.


I believe in that great plan of salvation and am so grateful everyday for the knowledge of knowing where I came from, why I'm here, and where I'm going.


I believe in not only having faith, but in acting upon it, by giving loving charity.


And knowing these things leaves one little room to do nothing.  Sometimes I feel like we are afraid to stand for what's right and we hide our beliefs when others are being thrown at us in every directions.  It's okay to believe what you believe.  It's okay to voice your opinion.  It's like that saying, 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.'

Now is not the time to forget what we believe.
Now is not the time to become complacent.
Now is not the time for sitting idly by
Now is not the time to be afraid of what other will think or say.

Now is the time to DO, come what may.