I once used to doubt what I was feeling and wasn't sure if it was all in my head. My first experience with gaining a testimony of god was when I was very young. I think around 11 or 12. I wanted to know why my friends my age where crying as they received the priesthood and why I never experienced what they where experiencing. I knew from when I was growing up that the adults talked about feeling the spirit and they would cry so when i saw my friends cry the same way as i have always seen in church I got sad and wanted to experience the same thing. I wondered why haven't I felt what they are feeling.
One day my sunday school teacher told me if you want to feel the holy ghost just pray about it and you will receive an answer. So as I went home I prayed about what was the holy ghost I hardly remember what I said but right after my prayer something amazing happened, I suddenly felt this peace and felt a strong feeling of love for me in my heart and my mind became clear. I was so happy to feel this and even though I don't remember when i felt this ever before I felt as if I had felt this amazing peace, love, and clarity before. I so do miss this happiness. I used to get said if I didnt feel it. I would miss it little by little as I read the scriptures I would feel that same peace maybe not as strong but it was there in my heart. I would read and find joy in it.
My favorite story in which i felt the spirit was when i read the story of Ammon and how he was a faithful and humble man. What stroked me most about the story was when the servants told the king that he attended the horses and was preparing them for him. That loyalty unto the lord to show a example unto his children touched me so greatly in my heart that I begin to really admired on what he was doing. I wanted to be that servant unto many and show my love for them and have that love in my heart from my father.
As I fell away from the church I begin to doubt what i was feeling and wasn't sure if it was in my head. I did things that opend up my mind to cause me to realize it was not in my head and what i was experiencing was genuine and as i went back to church at 23 even after my family fell away when i was 14 and i had a testimony before that. I am the only one in my family that still trys to go. I fell away again but trying to get back into it because i dont have a shadow of a doubt that the church is not true. I did my research and found that everything points right back at the church confirming to me that it is my saviors church.
I also had miracles happened that just complimented my testimony and even before that my insight of things are deep and i can perceive things that alow me to see the world in a deep way and my lord blessed me with that. I do hope that this helps. i want to bare more but i am busy. Later ill let you know more of my testimony and how it brings happiness to my life when I'm obeying what the lord wants out of me.