Be All That You Can Be!

This is a water bead if you didn't know.

The one on the far left is before you put it in water.

The one on the far right is after it has been in water.

The middle is one of the beads that has been water and then left out

for 24 hours.

The thing about these beads are they have to have the moisture in order to grow.

Yesterday we had a lesson in Relief Society on Testimonys.

The lady giving the lesson was just a few years younger than me

and she said she "believed", but really didn't "know"

until she finally thought she now knew.

Sometimes people think they have to have a dramatic experience

before they can really know that the Gospel is true.

I do not believe that has to be so.

She asked people to share an experience that made them go to knowing

from believing.

I kept quiet.  Amazing!!

I think I brought my knowledge from the pre-exsistance,

because I have always known that God lives,

that Jesus is our older brother, and they

both love us very much.

They are real.  Joseph Smith saw them.

I love the Book of Mormon and I know is is TRUE.

I am so glad we are studing it again in Sunday School and I learn

more all the time about it.

But I have never doubted that this Church is the only true

Church on the earth today.

Christ said He never did anything that he hadn't seen His Father do.

Christ made it possible for us to live again.

Our Testimonies grow by what we put into it.

By serving in any positions in the Church we help it to grow

just like that little bead.

When we serve we grow because we have to study to

Gospel more fully.

In Uncle Wayne's letter he said that Elder Bednar gave a talk

to the students down there at the Institute in St. George

this past week and told them that the coming year will bring

a "Mocking" of the Temple and the Church.

We need to be strong in our testimonies to withstand

that type of pressure.

I am so grateful all of you kids have Testimonies

and are doing your part in the Wards where you are living.

Our Heavenly Father is proud of each one of you.

He will help us in all our trials.

May the Holy Ghost bear witness to each of you of this great truth.