There are times when we have to step into the darkness in faith, confident that God will place solid ground beneath our feet once we do.
– Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Ever since I was 8 years old, I have been able to recognize the Holy Spirit whisper truth into my heart and mind. That feeling has grown stronger and clearer over time, but is also unmistakably the same and is very recognizable to me.
The one thing I’ve never been able to do until now is to share it with the world. I am happy and grateful for this opportunity. It’s one thing to have a testimony of Jesus Christ. It’s another thing to be converted to Jesus Christ. We can feel and even sometimes know things through the Holy Ghost. But turning what we know into what we do and live requires something else – conversion.
Oftentimes, things don’t go the way I really, really want them to. Sometimes, I pray and ask for things that just don’t happen when I think I really need them or when I think someone else really needs them.
I have many times seen others give up on God because they don’t get what they want when they want it. I believe that a testimony allows us to have enough faith to pray, attend church, read the scriptures and even share our feelings of the truths we know with others. Conversion is another, deeper level. It is when we trust God, that He knows what we need better than we know ourselves. It is when we make a life long commitment to follow Him and His son, Jesus Christ, even – no especially when things get really hard and when we don’t understand why things are the way they are at that moment.
I have made a commitment to follow Him to the end. I have a witness that God knows me and loves me and that Jesus Christ truly loves me enough to stand for me and plead for me and to atone for my sins. I know that Joseph Smith was the prophet of the Restoration and that President Russell M. Nelson is a living prophet today. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God and was translated by the gift and power of God. I know the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Savior’s restored church.
I am thrilled to be a member of the Savior’s church and humbled that I am allowed to slowly learn these truths to the point that they literally change my life. The Spirit has confirmed these things deep into my soul.