Tonight my mind is going a million different directions trying to get ready for a short week of school, which means a long week for me, including hosting two Thanksgivings, and carpet installers and the cable guy coming over.
I can do this.
So what inspiring thought shall I leave for the day.
I think I will share the testimony that I shared in October that I meant to write here, but wanted to share at church first.
I don't know if it is apparent from this blog that I struggle to believe sometimes. And I may be wording that wrong. How about this. I have to fight for my testimony. I think sometimes I am too quick to be the devil's advocate when I am talking religion, most especially with my husband Neil.
Back in September he had been listing to Joseph Smith the Prophet by Truman G. Madsen. (It's on my list of things to do, I should really get on that). Neil was saying how amazing it is to him all the things that happened and how strange it is to him that people don't believe that Joseph Smith is a prophet given all these miraculous events. This is where that whole devil's advocate thing steps in and I said, "Well let me tell you why...."
Terrible, I tell you. In fact, I spent the whole night kind of loathing myself and asking why I had to be like that. Why am I sowing those seeds.
The next morning I was over it, and doing my own thing when my doorbell rang and my friend Blanca was there with a new companion, coming to bring me The WatchTower. Blanca is really sweet and stops by from time to time to drop me off reading material and talk religion. This particular magazine was on the Kingdom of God, and we flipped to the back cover and went through all of the scriptures that we were listed.
Now normally because we both believe The Bible, our views on things are very similar, and we can have a agreeable conversation. This time however, things got a little rocky because of our disagreeing views on what the kingdom of God is, and when it will come. Many of the scriptures we talked about used the word government in her version of The Bible. Which was okay with me. It talked about a strong powerful government that would never be destroyed. (Daniel 2:44). After we got through all the scriptures and talked about what this government would be, I was trying not to jump up and down with joy. I said, "Do you know much about how our church is structured?" That probably sounds like a foolish question, but I was so excited. I told Blanca and her companion about our prophet and how he is guided by Jesus Christ and how we have apostles, just as when the kingdom of God was formerly established when Christ was here and he set things up. I was just too excited.
I told Blanca that we didn't see eye to eye on this subject, and that I would like to share a scripture with her. She obliged, but told me it needed to be from The Bible. That was too late though, because I was using the scriptures on my phone and pulled up The Introduction to the Book of Mormon before she could even finish that thought. She wasn't terrible happy with me, but followed along as I scrolled to the bottom, and was even excited to see that I had all these highlights in my scriptures. It was super cute, and I even showed them both how to highlight scriptures in their electronic devices. They were really excited.
I shared the last two paragraphs of the introduction with them, which looks like this in my LDS Scriptures app. I offered them a Book of Mormon, which they both said they had, and kindly declined. We talked a little more and then they left.
It also got me pondering and thinking how important it is to share your testimony. IT IS SO IMPORTANT! I kept saying, that is how Satan wins. He gets us to start doubting and stop saying what we do know. Testimonies are powerful, and as I shared with our congregation that day, it is inspired that we have been given the opportunity once a month to have a meeting focused only on testimonies. IT IS THAT IMPORTANT!
I know it's true, and hopefully with that recent feeling of sharing and how important it is, I will be better at blogging.
Good night.
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