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POSTED BY: astevezimm
DATE: 27.08.2008
SUBJECT: How Education Week Changed Me
LOCATION: Utah,
One of the greatest things to happen in my life occurred 12 or so years ago, at BYU's Education Week. I heard a youth speaker say some things that helped me realize that I needed to make changes in my life. Like Alma the Younger, I was weighed down in guilt and shame. I was disgusted with the way I offended God.

When I returned to the dorm room that my family was staying in, I sat on my bed, thinking of how foolish I've been in my life. I then began to feel great desperation to find out for myself if the things I believed from growing up in the LDS church were true. The thing that I especially needed to know was if my Father in Heaven really was there for me.

I knelt down in nervousness to say the prayer that would change my life. With tears rolling down my face, I pled for forgiveness and then I asked my Father if He was there. When I closed the prayer, the room seemed to radiate with an overwhelming feeling of peace and love. It felt as though His arms were around me. It was impossible to doubt that my sins have been forgiven.

I was so overcome by joy, in fact, that I needed to get back on my knees to give a prayer of gratitude. Everything good that has happened in my life since can be traced back to the testimony I received that night.

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