My family and I pray every day, we read from the scriptures, we serve in the church, we get up early to teach seminary and go to bed late preparing lessons, we tithe and fast as a show of our devotion. Eventually, this routine has an effect on our character. …[more]
Like many of you, my identity is shaped by my testimony, my membership in the Church, my family, my friends, my occupation, and my life experiences—both those that are joyful and those that are challenging. …[more]
My experience has inclined me to believe that testimonies may come: 1) As a sudden revelation of the Spirit; 2) As the result of a process of living certain gospel principles over a period of time. I have experienced both. …[more]
I understand things now that I didn’t before. I also know that this understanding has come because of an enduring pursuit that has led to experiences with the divine that have changed my heart. …[more]
Religions are more than just “stories”. That is, a religion is much more than simply the scriptures, recorded teachings of religious leaders, institutional policies, and popular narratives that explain the state of the world and humankind’s place in it. …[more]
I know the Lord wants his daughters to develop their talents, which vary widely from individual to individual. I try to excel as a scholar and as a mother, and while this is challenging it is also fulfilling. …[more]
Mormonism has produced thousands of scholars with advanced degrees from the best institutions who have found in their education and their disciplines countless reasons to affirm their belief in the Latter-day Saint faith. …[more]
In my professional and personal life, I have found that my educational experience has reinforced my testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It helps me to stand firm against opposition to what I believe and accept as true. …[more]
The spiritual side of my conviction is buttressed by what I feel is intellectual evidence about the Church’s beneficial social impact, which deserves more attention from Church members and others than it has received in the past. …[more]
There is a living God, Jesus Christ was and is His literal Son, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints truly is Christ’s church. I received this testimony by studying the scriptures, practicing the teachings found therein, fasting, and sincerely praying to know the truth. …[more]
I converted to Mormonism six days shy of my graduation from Brigham Young University. I was a person of faith before I went to BYU, having been raised in a Baptist home by remarkable parents who were converts to that faith. I come from a long line of truth-seekers. …[more]
I discovered at an early age that my spirit is more firmly attached at the head than the heart. Trust in spiritual things was a late development for me, but my recognition that Joseph Smith’s revelations are a treasure of insight and enlightenment came early. …[more]
In my own experience, the encounter between faith and reason is a practical, even existential question, not merely a theoretical one. What I mean by this is that I think people reflect upon the relationship between faith and reason only after being drawn, or even committed, to both. …[more]
Revelation provides a means of knowing about God and his relation to human beings that cannot be found from scientific discoveries. Mormonism is exciting to me for its acceptance of all truth, including ideas flowing both from modern revelation and science. …[more]
My religious belief has been a tremendous asset to me as a scientist. It gives me a purpose greater than simply figuring out how the Earth or the universe works. …[more]
My name is Robert Joseph. From my heritage, I descend from a long line of rangatira, or chiefs, in both my Maori and British whakapapa or genealogy. I have been raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Church) all of my life. …[more]
My testimony rests with the certainty of the objective existence of God based on a concept introduced by Joseph Smith as a result of his own personal experience: that of personal revelation. …[more]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by proclaiming the good news, the true Gospel of Christ, saved my spiritual and intellectual life. Without the restored gospel I would have become a total skeptic like most of my contemporary German friends. …[more]
Following those early days of my introduction to the testimony of Joseph Smith I have had time to look more closely at the information that God has spoken to people in places over the earth spanning all the centuries of these several dispensations of time since Adam. …[more]
In reviewing my early life, I’ve come to realize that my faith developed according to the process taught by Alma the Younger to the Zoramites in Alma 32:21-43, although unknowingly and not without pitfalls and wrong turns along the way. …[more]
