The Do’s and Do Not’s of Bearing Your Testimony


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Every first Sunday of the month, Latter-day Saints have the chance to stand at the pulpit and bear their testimonies. Sometimes it's easier said than done. Bearing your testimony can be a difficult thing, whether it's the anxiety of everyone looking at you, or simply wondering what you should say. We've come up with some tips to help you know what to do and what not to do to make bearing testimony easy. DO NOT: Introduce your testimony: Tell me if this sounds familiar: "I wasn't going to bear my testimony unless XXXX did, and then he had to go and get up," or "I didn't want to get up here, but I had a feeling that I just had to stand." We've all heard it before. Take the advice my mom gave me for my first sacrament meeting talk, and just start! Go into a rant: Speaking from personal experience, rants are better when found online or a soap box, not erupting from behind the pulpit. Remember your 5 minutes in front...

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