Testimony

In case it is not clear I would like to let everyone to know: I love the the Book of Mormon!!! I know with all my heart that IT IS TRUE. I have been studying the Book of Mormon every chance I get. I study it for the full hour of my personal study. During every meal time I hurry and eat really fast so that I can read my Book of Mormon for the rest of the hour. And whenever we're waiting for an appointment to show up I pull it out. I know that our Savior LIVES! We talk about all the time that we will live with Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father again but do we really, really take the time to think about that we will SEE Jesus Christ and hear his voice? Just as it says in D&C 50:40-46 "And the day cometh that you shall hear my voice and see me, and know that I am." I know that I will see Jesus Christ some day and that He loves me. I feel his love. It burns in my heart. I am so thankful for the Plan that Heavenly Father has for our families. I know that I have eternity with my family and to see my investigators follow Jesus Christ and take steps toward the temple makes me happier than anything ever could. I am more than thankful for a young 14 year-old boy, Joseph Smith, who had a simple question, which church was true and I know that He got an answer. I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in that grove of trees. And do you know how I know that?! Because the Book of Mormon is proof of it. The Book of Mormon, if read and sincerely prayed about will be the confirming witness through the Holy Ghost that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the only true church. This is the same church that Jesus Christ set up on the Earth and we have a real Prophet, Thomas S. Monson, who guides the Church of Jesus Christ on the earth. I know that Heavenly Father hears each of our prayers and that he will answer each one if we ask in faith, which means that we are willing to act on the answer we receive even if the answer is not what we want. I love my Father in Heaven. He is continually throwing things in our path to bring us closer to him and His Son, Jesus Christ. As said in Philippians 4:13 "[We] can do all things through Christ which stengtheneth [us]." I know that two people can do ANYTHING, if one of them is the Lord. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths" (Proverbs 3:5-6) I know that if we build our foundation upon the Rock of our Redeemer then we will not fall (Helaman 5:12) It is the only foundation whereon if men build they cannnot fall.  I am a Child of God and He has sent me here.
Elder Whiting