Relief Society Conference

Tonight because of my amazing visiting teacher, I was able to attend the Relief Society Conference,
we sat on the 3rd row!! We were SO close!! It was a great message and a lot of talk about service and many heart warming stories. The relief society president talked about how repentence is like
climbing out of a pit and you need to put the ladder in the pit to get out. To me, the ladder signifies the steps of repentence, you need to admit your wrong doing, talk to someone about it, and promise your heavenly father you wont make that mistake agian.When Henry B. Eyring got up and talked he talked of how visiting teaching blesses our lives when we least expect it. He told of his daughter who lived in another state and she was 5 months pregnant, she started bleeding and as she went to call her husband someone knocked at the door, it was her visiting teacher who suspected something was wrong and she took her to the hospital and had her husband meet her there. She had to have an emergency C section, and she gave birth to a preemie girl who weighed 1lb 11 oz, now I find this so amazing because I too was born premature weighing 1lb 11oz at birth! The baby is now healthy and 2 years old.  I am so thankful that I live here and that I was able to attend the conference tonight. As we were leaving President Uchtdorf was standing by the exit and he looked right at me and I reached out and we shook hands. It was so amazing!
I am so excited for conference. I know that the speakers will have great messages.

President Uchtdorf

Investigation Part 2

When I attended sacrament meeting, I was so nervous and I didn't know what to expect.
Bryan was a teacher of a Primary class. So I just met him there for sacrament. He came out to my car
and got me and we went into sacrament. I listened to the talks and was taking everything in
and it all really made sense.
I decided I would go again the next week.
I went to the ward in my boundaries with a friend named Skye, we went to that ward
a couple times. I decided it was time to meet with the missionaries.
I was so nervous to talk to the bishop, Skye came in with me and we talked to the bishop and
told him I was investigating and that I wanted to take the discussions. He took my
number and later that week Bryan and I went out to Salt Lake to Temple Square. On the way home I got a phone call from the missionaries.
I was so nervous to meet with the missionaries, I was home alone one day, and I sat down in my room and said a prayer, asking Heavenly Father if I was doing the right thing by meeting with the missionaries, and to give me an answer if the church really is true. After I closed my prayer, I took my Book of Mormon and I randomly opened it. I opened to 3 Nephi 11:33

"And whoso believeth i n me, and is baptized, the same shall be saved; and they are they who shall inherit the kingdom of God."

After reading that the spirit was so strong, I knew I was doing the right thing, I immediatly sent a text message to Bryan, I knew I had felt the spirit.

We met the next week at the ward mission leaders house, Bryan came with me to most of the discussions. The lessons were so helpful, I learned new things and I also realized that most of what they were teaching me were things I had believed my whole life.
I continued reading the scriptures attending sacrament and meeting with the missionaries. By the way,  I started meeting with the missionaries in May. My parents were fine with me meeting with them since it was at someone elses house.
The next lesson the missionaries asked if I would be baptised on June 20th. I said yes. Later when I told my parents, they didn't like this and thought it was too soon. So I decided to put it off and wait a little longer.
I continued to attended the church meetings and I attended a gospel principles class that was very helpful for new converts and investigators. I continued meeting with the missionaries.

A family member of mine wanted to have lunch with me, right away I knew what this was about, my cousin was very anti and was not happy with me investigating the church. I went to lunch with him
and he gave his two sense.The next day I attended sacrament in Bryans ward, a man got up and
spoke about the Book of Mormon, in his talked I learned he was a convert. It made me study, pray and seek harder because I knew that in my heart I was doing the right thing by investigating.
The last week in June some amazing things happened to strengthen my testimony.
I went to lunch with my mom who is a hairdresser, and she told me how she did a girls hair that
is a convert and she was telling my mom how happy she is now that she joined the LDS church.

On Friday June 19th Bryan and I attended a wedding reception of one of his old mission companions. We sat down at an empty table and a middle aged couple came and sat down by us.
The man started talking about how he had joined the military when he graduated high school, in talking about the military he used the words "and when I was baptized," Bryan and I froze.

After the reception we were driving back to Bountiful and we both thought it was crazy that all of these signs had happened the same week I had orginally planned to be baptised. I had my answer, I knew that I was supposed to be baptized. Part 3

How I became an investigator part 1

Growing up all of my life in Bountiful, UT I had a pretty anti-mormon attitude.
I had friends invite me to Mutual and Young Womens. I went a few times and I
always had fun but always felt a little akward. I had never read the Book of Mormon
I always just said I never believed it but I never gave it a fair shot. I had never even been to
an LDS Sacrament meeting. I shut myself out from anything "Mormon." Almost
every single one of my friends was LDS. A boy I dated named Bryan (who is now my husband)
was one of the only people I dated in high school that never bothered me about
not being "a member" Bryan and I went to his Senior prom together and dated
that summer, he always said if I had questions to ask. The end of the summer we
went our seperate ways and we started talking again in January. I knew Bryan
was preparing for a mission, we hung out quite a bit and I even attended his farewell (this was the first LDS sacrament I had ever been to) a good friend Caslyn came with me. I was so nervous going
into the meeting, she gave me the run down and told me what to expect. Bryan got up and talked,
he did a wonderful job, at the end when he bore his testimony to my surprise I started crying.
I didn't know why I was crying, I later found out it was the holy ghost speaking to me.

He left on his mission and I wrote him the whole mission, he had a girlfriend that was waiting
for him to come home who also wrote him often. Bryan told me alot about the mission. While he was gone I started getting into alcohol and drinking a lot with some friends.

I found an old friend from a church I used to attend via Facebook, we started talking and we exchanged phone numbers. Tabi, is her name, when we used to be friends she was a big partier,
and she was into a lot of bad stuff, I never really hung out with her during those days. I was never into drugs. We got together one day and she told me that she was reading the Book of Mormon, and how it has really turned her life around, I thought it was pretty amazing because she was a lot different than the person I used to know. She started telling me about her experiences with the church, and I was filled with amazed at how much she was telling me was things that I had believed my whole life. We kept chatting and would get together every so often.

When Bryan came home from his mission we got together and just caught up on all the things we had missed during those 2 years. We talked a lot and I told him how I was thinking that I should stop drinking, I didn't know why but I had a feeling that I should. Bryan and many friends supported me in this decision. I was a much happier person and a few health problems that I had went away to my sustainment of alcohol.

I hung out with Tabi and Bryan a lot, and I would always ask them questions about the LDS church and what they believe, I had a whole 3 pages of questions that I had, I was also doing research online about the LDS church, I would search church sites and also anti-mormon sites. To my surprise every single question I had was answered by one of my friends or friends parents. Everything was making so much sense. Bryan asked me to come to church with him, somehow I didn't feel ready for that.
Bryan got me a Book of Mormon and I started reading it. Later that week I sent him a text saying I was ready to attend a Sacrament Meeting with him. .... Part 2

Welcome

Welcome to my blog, in this blog I will share my conversion processes, testimonies as well as wonderful experiences I have had and continue having in the church. I will review books I have read associated with the LDS church as well. Feel free to pass this link along to a friend. Thank you readers.
This picture is from August 20, 2011. My wonderful fiance, who is now my husband baptised me and gave my confirmation the next day.