I hear ya Shera.
I remember after a bunch of people were baring their testimony (after being told to keep it short and cut to the chase) the last person came up with tears filled in his eyes. This was after a few stories (that related, yay!) and someone sang a verse of a hymn to aid her in baring her testimony, and other stories and testimonies.
So he went up to that podium, tears filling his eyes and said with a quivering voice, "I don't have a story. I don't have a song. But I have a testimony that this Gospel is true." (Last line paraphrased since I don't think I got it right.)
That was powerful, and the Spirit filled the room.
I never bare my testimony unless instructed to by the Spirit and when I do I ask what I should say. Every testimony meeting I attend I'll ask, "So, do you have a message for me to deliver? Should I bear my testimony?" And sometimes he fills my mind with something and tells me when to get up and other times I get the hang tight no worries feeling. A story usually accompanies my testimony but it directly relates, and I'm not wandering around. After all, the Spirit's telling me what to say, kinda hard to get off track.
