Sunday, December 17, 2006

My Mom came to church!

Well, my Mom actually came to church today. It was awesome. What was cool was that there were a few members in my new ward that knew her before, so they all came up and spoke to her, and I hope made her feel welcome. I think every single one of them invited her to come back to our ward all the time.

I was sitting there listening to the speaker who was talking about making people feel welcome and people coming back to activity, etc. I felt impressed to get up and bear my testimony. One problem, it's not testimony meeting. The Spirit didn't really seem to care about that fact. I kept trying to bring up that point, yet the feeling just got stronger and stronger. Finally, I thought, if she doesn't come back to church anymore, and I didn't do what I was prompted to do, I'd never forgive myself. So, I wrote a note on the program that said, "Can I have 2-3 minutes to bear my testimony?" Nervous and embarrassed, I walked up to the stand, sat down next to the Bishopric and handed the Bishop the note. He sat there for a couple minutes not even acknowleging the note. I figured he must be praying about it. Pretty soon, he pulled out his pen and wrote a note in return. He passed it to me and it read, "If your testimony is a positive reinforcement about today's talks then YES!". The speaker ended his talk and the Bishop leaned over and said something to the conducting counselor, who then got up and announced that I would be bearing my testimony and following my words, the Bishop would say a few words as well. I was then able to stand and bear my testimony to my mother. I was able to tell her how much I loved her and how happy I was that she was there. I cried, she cried, and the Spirit was very strong. I hope it meant as much to her as it did to me.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow.

You have some serious guts! Congrats. That's a great story.

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Blogger Book Dragon said...

That's amazingly incredible!

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