Testimony moment

So as I've stated in the about me bit of my profile, I am a Mormon. Really I should state that I am from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), but many people just call us Mormons which is cool by me So I have been Mormon ever since I was 9 (when I was baptised) and I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't aways the 100% Mormon before I turned 16 but I think I already knew in my heart that this lifestyle is better than the alternative. It helped that I had friends in church too which kept me coming, especially my best friend who is amazeee!!  And isn't she gawjj guys ^^ hehe. But yeah it helped to have good friends in my earlier years or the Pre-testimonial days. But now I have a good group of besties which I will cover in another post. Which I'd probably call My mormona friends (Mormona because I'm trying to feminise it lol).
But yeah anyway back to the subject.. So I'll just fast foward to the 16th year on this Earth. So I enrolled myself to this convention type week long program called EFY which stands for Especially for youth. And it's basically a week long well 5-6 days of spiritual lessons of the Gospel and also sooooo much fun!!! It's awesome!! I mean the lessons were sooooo good and then you had the activities like making up cheers, dances and other awesome things. And don't forget the food!! At the Canterbury EFY session the food was always good hmmm :). You also had the opportunity to make loads of friends as there were tons of people and I mean like probably 800 or something or even more. But the down side of it was the early mornings but it was okay apart from that.Our cheer :)

Okay so when did my testimony time come? It was when we were having our testimony meeting fireside and all week long I just wanted to know if this was the path for me and if it was all true and I remember just sitting there on my seat, and all of a sudden this sweet, warm burning like a fire feeling just took over my great and trust me it was a massive surprise as I had never felt anything like it before.  When I say burning I don't mean it as it was painful, it was ugghhhh I can't really explain it really. I just had an overwhelming feeling of the Holy Spirit and from then I knew it was all true and I went up and bore my testimony and that was it for me. There was no going back from there. I started reading my scriptures every night and left the pre-testimonial habits behind and since then just tried to be the best I can.  “Behold, I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart” (D&C 8:2).
That year was truly a sweet 16 for sure!