My testimony!

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 I have grown up in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints but that doesn't mean I have always had a testimony, we had a lesson in relief society today that got me thinking about my "conversion" story...I was lost but now I'm found. Sometimes you have to get lost before you know where home is!
     Growing up my family was "inactive" until I was around 8, we would go to church for a while then get out of the habit again it was something we just did sometimes...Then my family started going regularly it became something we just did on Sunday's.
      As a teenager I went to church with my family, but at that time I didn't really have a strong testimony I knew it was a good place to be, but at that time my mentality was that people related to God in different ways and that is why everyone worshippers differently and why there were so many different churches. I then graduated high school and moved out with a good friend of mine. Being out on my own and having my own place I felt different like something was missing....I came to realize it was the spirit and the gospel missing that had me feeling that emptiness! I went home to visit for the weekend and I remember I had a strong feeling that I needed to come back home! That was the first time I followed the spirit!
    I remember driving to work and I would pass the Sacramento temple I have driven by there so many times before but this particular time as I drove by I felt the spirit hit me and I felt like that is where you need to be! I knew that I needed to do everything I could to be able to be worthy to go inside the temple someday!!
       I  reluctantly started going to the YSA ward with some friends. It was at this time I met my husband Derrick he was and is a great example of faith and he continues to strengthen my faith and testimony by his example. That  year we were studying the life of Joseph smith and I remember watching a video in class about Joseph smith and the first vision, I felt the spirit very  strongly that it was true and I knew if he was a true prophet that the Book of Mormon was true and the church!!
   My testimony and faith continue to grow, it takes lots of work and strength to keep it growing, it's not easy and many times I wonder if I can do it. Doing the right thing is often the harder thing, the hardships and trials we all have are to help us grow stronger and to rely on the lord realizing that he has a plan for us! You don't know what's good until you have experienced the bad.
   I know my savior lives and died for ME and all of us! I have a testimony of this gospel and know that it is true. I receive strength and hope through scriptures and prayer and from other members, I don't know where I would be without this gospel today! I'm so blessed that I'm able to go to the temple and feel the spirit there I love going to the temple it gives me strength and I have received many answers to my prayers in the temple  I love the eternal  perspective it gives me for my life. Im so happy that I softened my heart and listened to the spirit to come back! I'm proud to be a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!

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