A few weeks ago, during a Monday night Family Home Evening (FHE) we committed ourselves to get up together and bear testimony, during fast and testimony meeting. This is a meeting which is held once a month, usually on the first Sunday of the month, in which the members of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints have an opportunity to get up, if they want, and share testimony about principles of the gospel that they have a testimony of.

We completed that commitment today, we felt wonderful afterwards, it is always a challenge to get up in front of a large group of people and talk. I felt really close to my wife, she finds it even more difficult then I do, and yet she got up and did it anyway, because she believes in the importance of testifying of truth. In a world full of spiritual uncertainty, it is a special thing to be able to say ‘we know’ that God lives, and ‘we know’ he speaks through a living prophet , we have this knowledge ‘first hand’ through direct experiences, experiences which have come by experimenting on the ‘word’ of Christ. My testimony of faith was strengthened today by watching my wife exercise the principles of faith, Nicole today hoped for strength from the Lord, to help her speak, a blessing she knew could come to those seeking it righteously, and by acting on this knowledge she was blessed with the strength she needed. In doing this she fulfilled the requirements of faith that Paul spoke of when he said “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” Hebrews 11:1 Alma also spoke of faith, when he said, “If ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true” (Alma 32:21) because faith is a principle of both action and power Nicole first had to act, before she received the power that she required to complete her commitment. It was just a small experience we had today, but one that added to a lifetime of others, and it’s these many small experiences, which build, piece by piece, a firm and unmoving testimony of truth.