Pearls & Perfection Pending

I am very thankful for the Book of Mormon.  This morning, I watched a short video about a man who came to know that the Book of Mormon was true for himself.  A lot of the passages of scripture he reads are passages that have also had a big impact on me. Growing up, my testimony came piece by piece.  The first thing I gained a deep and life-changing knowledge of, at the age of fifteen, was that Jesus Christ is my savior.  He knows me and loves me.  He wants me to be happy and he has taken all the steps necessary to make that a possibility for me.  I spent a week at a church youth camp called EFY which left me a new-found vision and purpose in life. My second most memorable experience came in the form of a confirmation that Joseph Smith was truly a prophet.  I spent many years pondering this and studying to find out for myself if he really was what he claimed to be and really saw what he claimed to see.  Through many important...

Truth is a topic that seems to become more and more cloudy in our society today.  I feel like we that believe in any form of absolute truth are becoming more strange to the world.  People who stand up for values or maintain that there is a right way and a wrong way to look at things or do things are considered more often than not, intolerant and close-minded.  I remember how shocked I was the first time I tried to take a political stance on an issue when I was eighteen.  There was a controversial ballot measure relating to marriage that I was interested in.  I researched a little bit and found out all I could about how to write to our local representatives regarding the issue.  I sent a quick Facebook message to all of my friends telling them how I felt about the measure and giving them the information I had found in case they wanted to write a letter as well.  It was short and simple and what I considered to be friendly, unoffensive and nothing more ...