My Testimony

[ZealoulyStriving]

Today, I have been given the opportunity to bear a short 3 Minute testimony in our Branch Conference. (This is Branch a organized for the local prisons)...

• You will realize someday the importance of your calling to God and the heavens. 

  • Members would be clamoring to volunteer if they knew the blessings that will come to those who minister to the prisoner.

 

• Heavenly Father loves us with a love that we can barely even conceive of. 

  • As the Lord's newest Apostle, Elder Patrick Kearon, said, and as I can personally witness, “God is in relentless pursuit of you. He “wants all of His children to choose to return to Him,” and He employs every possible measure to bring you back.”

 

• Jesus Christ is our Messiah, Redeemer, and King. 

  • He voluntarily suffered, bled, and died so that we could repent and we receive forgiveness. He is our only hope of forgiveness, salvation, and exaltation.

  • By His Resurrection all of God's children will gain immortality. 

  • He is the Light and Life of this world and all creation. He is creation's only hope. Without Him all would be darkness and chaos. 

  • He is coming again soon to establish His Kingdom of Peace.

 

• Joseph Smith holds the keys of, and is the head of this, the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times and those keys will never be taken from him- “Forever and ever the keys he will hold!”. 

  • He is the Servant of the Lord in the parable of the Vineyard. He will stand again on the earth to lead forth in the redemption of Zion- “Millions shall know Brother Joseph again!”. 

  • The Lord gave me a testimony of the calling of Joseph Smith Jr. at 16, and the all  devils in hell haven't been able to, and never will, take that witness from me!

 

• The Book of Mormon is a real history, of real people, that really lived. It contains the fullness of the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ. 

  • It is the keystone of my religion. 

  • It is my Latter-day survival guide. 

  • I have, and you will, come closer to God by abiding by it's precepts than any other Book.

 

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord's Church. 

  • It was established through the ministry of angels.

  • Only in it are found the keys of salvation and eternal life. As President Nelson recently said, “no other organization can and will influence your life after death.”

 

• Russell Marion Nelson is the Lord's Presiding High Priest to direct His work in these days. 

  • He is the prophet, seer, and revelator to the Church and the world. 

  • If we obey the counsel given through him we will receive the power to endure and survive the sorrows that are coming upon the earth, and receive a fullness of joy in the mansions of our Eternal Parents.

Edited April 14, 2024 by ZealoulyStriving