I'll take advantage of this opportunity to share a last
testimony to you as a missionary. It's basically the same thing I shared when I
shared my testimony to say goodbye last Thursday in Zone Conference.
As my time is coming to an end, I've been getting a little
nervous about coming home. But during the mission I've learned to trust in God
and I know that everything will turn out just right, as long as I cling to the
iron rod, cling to what I know is right. I think the best decision I made was
not the decision to go on a mission, but the decision I had to make several
times to keep moving forward, not give up, even when it's been incredibly and
unimagineably hard. Those were the decisions that made the difference.
When we step forward with faith, God paves the way. Even
when the mist of darkness is so thick that we can't see the path ahead.
I want to share what I've come to know on my mission. I know
of a surety that Jesus Christ lives. I have come to know Him. He has always
been there when nobody else could be, when I was terribly alone. He has changed
me in ways I never imagined possible, and with that, my priorities and my
destiny have changed.
I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I have drunk deeply
from it and found relief in it. I felt a burning fire in my chest that gave me
the answer I sought to know if it was true.
I learned to apply the gospel and the Atonement in my life.
I tried it out and it works. We always have the power to change for the
better.
I know that the church is true and that God has called
prophets and Apostles to show us the way to be truly happy in this life, and
the life to come.
I know that obedience to God's commandments leads to happiness, and disobedience to them does not, even as enticing as it may seem. I have seen too many evidences of this in the lives of the people I've met.
This is my testimony, simply and perhaps poorly stated, but
it's mine.
Elder Joseph Garrett
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