Monday, July 7, 2008

I believe in Christ.
In the world that we live in, we will not likely be called to die for Christ or for the gospel's sake, but what we are asked to do is to live for Christ. My testimony of Christ began when I was a young child as I observed my parents and the enviorment that I was raised in. I would learn things at school and my parents would teach me about how they fit in with Heavenly Father's eternal plan. The answers would make sense to my head, but more importantly they made sense to my heart. As I grew and had experiences of my own, I can see the hand of God in my life and how his influence has shaped and changed me. I recall experiences when I was beyond mortal comfort, but as I sought, divine assistance was always there and it was not imaginary, it was and is as real as the sun at noon day. My testimony of the Atonement is real. I know that it happend just as surely as I know that I exist. The most happiness in my life has come through trying to act like Jesus and seeing the person that it makes me, and seeing the influence and change it has on others. There is not another influence like it in all the world. Christ's Atonement makes us like him. I bear witness that He lives; just as much as He ever has, and that He will not abandon us. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.