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VIEW PERSONAL BELIEFS
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POSTED BY:
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irene_mauga
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DATE:
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25.10.2009 |
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SUBJECT:
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MY JOURNEY IN THE GOSPEL |
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LOCATION:
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Auckland, New Zealand
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Sixteen years ago i made a choice to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I was at a point of my life where i felt there was something missing.........like i had lost my way so to speak and needed something to help me find my way again....I was always brought up in a religious home.....but of another faith...I was a young mother of 3 in a relationship out of wedlock with my companion whom during our relationship i found out he was a member of the church but very less active. We lived with my inlaws and so i was always surrounded by church members, missionaries when they visited the home.....I always felt pressured by my inlaws and their member friends to be a member and so i was discouraged even more not to join the church. Then one day i just had enough of the life myself and my companion had.....the parties....going out....I felt there was something that was missing....i knew what it was.....Church!!....i have always attended church even though it was of a different faith....so i made a decision to move away from my inlaws and start fresh....not knowing what was in store for me next. I can remember it was a Friday day when we moved out to our new place...it was on the other side of town....a cute flat big enough for myself and my small young family....it had been a week since we moved into our new home and i heard a knock on the door one morning......it was two missionaries....one from america and one from australia......i don't know how to explain, how it came that i allowed them to come into my home and talk with me about the church, but the feeling that i felt at the time was of comfort and i wanted to give them a chance to share what they wanted to share. I invited them back to teach me the lessons....it was awesome......there were still questions that i had....like a gazillion of them....but i perservered, my companion was howvever not at all interested and so while i had lessons, my companion was in the next room watching telly. A few months had gone by and and then my lessons had come to an end....i felt sad but then the missionaries shared with me about baptism....the next step....was i ready....i had an overwhelming feeling that what i was to about to do next was the right thing for me...and especially for my family. So before i could be baptised myself and my husband had to do the right thing and get married, when i had talked to my companion i was so surprised that he agreed with me, to get married and then i was to be baptised after. This was the beginning of a new life for me.....a journey that i would turn back from......we were married on September 11th 1993 at the Tepapapa, Onehunga Chapel.....it was very simple and beautiful, straight after the wedding ceremony i was then baptised by Elder Tyler Young, and to this day myself and my husband are very stong in the gospel, we have 11 beautiful children and we are an eternal family that are sealed for time and all eternity....i have a strong testimony of this gospel......i know my heavenly father lives and Jesus Christ too.....I know that Joseph Smith was called of God and restored the church and translated the Book of Mormon....I know that our prophet Thomas S Monson is a true prophet called of God and i sustain all our leaders in the church. I have had ups and downs during my journey in the gospel and still perservere, because I know that if i do all that is asked of me and obey my heavenly fathers commandments, that i will live with him and with my family in the eternities......I know this churchj is true .....and do not for one moment regret my choice i made 16years ago to be a member. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
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