Bare testimony

[Sunday21]

Hi. I would like to bare my testimony on a specific subject. I was once getting ready for General Conference which I really love. I really love it even when I don’t understand the point that the speaker is making. Some of the talks require an understanding of cultural references that I lack. And some of them, who knows what they require, but clearly I don’t have it! I like the talks largely because the people giving them are so nice. I love nice people and therefore, I was clearly destined to be religious even as an atheist. 

I was happily thinking of the upcoming conference when the thought struck me. I used to volunteer with abused women. It is very common for a charismatic man or woman to be very different at home. Once the door closes on the outside world, the charismatic person can become a very different person. Sometimes a very nasty person. I felt sad for the wives of the apostles and General Authrrities. I felt how sad, it must be to listen to your husband be Mr. Wonderful in Conference and knowing that that person is cruel or uncaring to you at home. 

I suddenly felt and heard a still small voice say to me: ‘My prophets and those who work closely with them are good husbands and Fathers. I am not a fool. You can trust me. If they were not good husbands and fathers, I would not have chosen them. Trust me not to let you down.’ 

I can now listen to General Conference without worrying about their wives and children.