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POSTED BY:	manxman
DATE:	02.09.2008
SUBJECT:	The fruits of trust
LOCATION:	Perth, Australia

1981-abt December-Kalgoorlie, W.A. I was in a half-way house for economic support, and my landlady said there was someone att he door for me.... I listened, nothing said the was contraty to what I could remember, and new ideas were presented. They gave me a book to read. I read cover to cover in 3 days, and felt that was a good story, for it seemed a storybook to me, but I had a phrase digging into my heart, "a two edged sword, dividing assunder the joints and the marrow". I couldn't shake it. We met in the street on the 4th day, and they were astonished I'd read it all. We talked more, and I had trouble accepting this Joseph Smith fellow as a prophet. They told me how to know for myself, but I guess I didn't believe them, as I didn't try to proove it, but I wanted to believe-they were such fine people! They taught me all their lessons, and I still didn't know it was real. They had challenged me for baptism, and I think I had agreed. Crunch time, pre-baptism night: I reasoned to myself that if this was real, I needed it, and if it wasn't then I could leave without consequence, but I would have to join and give it time to prove itself one way or the other, for I knew that if I followed what it taught and it worked, then it was of God. I mentally set myself a year, and was baptized the next day. Some weeks passed, I didn't have a witness, and I recognised that I had unfinished repentance to clear up with some people. I began gathering what was needed, a slow process, which ultimately got bogged down. In increasing concern for my own soul, I walked from Boulder to Kalgoorlie (5-6KM) and soon arrived at the chapel. It was open, as the cleaner was there. I walked in and kneeled down between the pews, and said to the Lord that I would, when I got up from that prayer, make my way to those I'd wronged, and make a full and free confession, and deliver what evidence I had to help them decide what should be done. I said to the lord that I would accept the consequences of my actions, whatever they were, then arose from my prayer. I has not stood up without knowing the truths I had hungered for were so. Call relief, call it psychoclogical stress relief, call it what you like, but I knew and continue to know that it is all true. This is the true and living church, Jesus stands at its head, and his resurrection is a fact. Joseph Smith is the prophet of the restoration. The priesthood is real. I know it.

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