This is ME Challenge

Okay, so I have decided to take on the This is ME Challenge.  My goal is that every Monday I will take a few minutes and talk about ME!  If my best friend can take 10 minutes out of her BUSY missionary schedule to write to me and her family, I can find 10 minutes to write my personal history.  My blog will be how I record my personal history   I don't have journals and stuff from my ancestors (at least not that I have found) and I want my posterity to know about me, and maybe they will think that a little strange runs in the family.  I will be going off of this site I found on Pinterest. Join me in writing your own history!

Week 1 Record Your Testimony, and How You Gained It

Well, honestly a testimony is an ever changing thing!  I can't think of when I received my testimony of our Lord and Savior.  I always knew He was there and that He loved me.  I know that there have been different times in my life where certain aspects of my faith have been tested and proven to me as gospel truths.  I know that the power of tithing is amazing.  There have been a number of times when somehow, we would just make it.  And honestly, the weeks we skipped paying tithing and we made it up on the next paycheck, things were harder and we struggled as a couple and as a family.  I know the power of the Holy Ghost and as a Sister in Zion as I have listened and followed promptings that led me to helping a friend.  Even if it was just with a phone call or a meal, I knew without a doubt that I was on the Lord's errand.  My testimony of Joseph Smith was cemented in while on a youth trip to Nauvoo the summer after my senior year in high school.  My testimony of prayer is unshakable as I have had so many accounts I can't even count.  I especially know of my Savior's and Heavenly Father's love for me as his child.  I shared a story here and it literally changed my life forever.  I know I didn't "join the church" for the right reasons.  I joined the Church because I NEEDED standards to live by and I wanted guidance.  It really was my "rebellious act" as a pre-teen and I know my life has changed for the good because of it, and I know it has affected my family for generations to come.

I was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on October 9, 1999 in the Sparks, NV Stake.  Almost one month before my 14th birthday.  I was surrounded by friends and my step-father's mother.  My bishop, Tom Stauss baptized me and confirmed me the next day.  I was scared, but excited at the same time.  Some of my family was definitely not keen on the idea of me becoming a Mormon, but I knew I needed to be there.  I definitely have come a long way since that day, and I know that as long as I am willing, I will continue to progress and become the woman and mother my Heavenly Father has designed for me to become.