The age of 18 I went to Bible college and became financially withdrawn. Also around this time my uncle was trying to get me to join the mormon church. He was the only one in my family who belonged to this cult and I wanted nothing to do with it (except for the free movies I liked to order of TV.) the age of 20 I went back to School both law and Bible college. I dropped out of law school to concentrate solely on my AA and BA in Christian studies and theology. I became a licensed and ordained baptist minister. However something was missing in my life. There was a void in my life and I could not understand it. I was thirsting for and hungering for something that I could not find that i thought did not exist. I started study other religions and nothing calmed the tempest that was raging in my soul. April 2004 I drove to Utah to visit my Uncle and it turned out to be the Mormon General Conference weekend. There, my cousin on the way out to snow canyon, she was 14 years old at the time, made me promise her to read the Book of Mormon. I have had many copies of this book through out my life, however i think they were usually thrown in the trashed or I used them for Lego tents and platforms. So I promised her I would read it. To me it was just another book and I was just going to read it and get it over with just to say I read it. However as I read it, i started to recieve a calming feeling over me. Everything in this Book was everything I already believed in. I finished ready the Book of Mormon May of 2004 and I took the Moroni challenge. Moroni 10:3-5
"Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts. And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."As soon as I prayed asking if these things I just read and that the feeling I had was true, Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ both came to me again as two personages telling me this is what they have planned for me, I was to resign as a minister and join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I study out the Book of Mormon until September and I was ready to join the Church. I started to look for the missionaries. They are always around when you don't want them around, but when you do want them they are no where to be found. Finally I found them, and we had our lessons, I would have been baptized that first day if it was allowed. October 15 2004 I became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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