What led me to the True Church? Two things; first off I had the feeling we, as converts all have...something ws missing from my life.  The other...I found myself on a trip nobody wants to take, the trip downward. I was heading for that certain sort of breakdown that most of us resist, the breakdown of my stubborn self-sufficiency.

Finally I experienced the odd relief of hitting rock bottom, where I made an unexpected discovery: the rock on which I had been thrown was none other than Christ Himself. Cast on Him alone, I was in a position to rebuild the rest of my life, this time as a God-dependent person rather than the self-dependent person I had been. My rock-bottom experience became a turning point and one of the most vital spiritual developments of my life.

Most people feel anything but spiritual when they hit bottom. But our Heavenly Father is well-pleased with what He intends to bring out of such a painful process. A person who knows the secret of the God-dependent life can say Psalms 119:71 with firm meaning, "It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes". I know without a doubt, that the Book of Mormon is true, Joseph Smith was a prophet and Thomas S. Monson is our prophet today. This I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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