My Baptism Talk

I gave a talk at my own baptism


Friday, October 15, 2004

“Too many of us feel after the world.  Can the world give you the light that you have received, and the gospel and the hopes of heaven you have received, and the priesthood you have received?  And will you barter these things for a mess of pottage, and wallow in the filth, corruption, iniquity, and evils which abound in the world?”  John Taylor, 1876

What do we live for, and how do we live our lives.  Are our lives one that glorifies the world or glorifies our Father.  I have tried to live my life by God’s commandments, one in which honors him.  I have been serving our Father since 1992 at the age of 10.  Now I take a new journey one in which brings me closer to heaven and my Father.  As a former minister I am not giving up the call of duty as a minister but answering the higher calling to soon priesthood.  My life is being transfigured into a new greatness and a more special covenant.  I say to any investigators that may be here tonight the Book of Mormon is a true testament of our prophets and Joseph Smith and all residing prophets after him up to our current residing prophet President Hinckley are true prophets ordained by our Lord and not by man.  I know these things to be true not because anyone has told me to believe these things but because God told me these were so.

 
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 you would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.  And when you 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 you 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.


Ask God what is true and what he wants you to believe for it is by his Word that I made my baptism covenant this day with God and became apart of the LDS family.  I choose to follow God’s will and live my life for Him and not of this world.