My Journey to Joseph
As part of my Foundations of the Restoration class here at BYU, I was assigned to plan, carry out, and report on a semester project of my choosing that will help me to gain and strengthen a testimony of the Restoration of the Gospel. As I was struggling to come up with a project, I remembered the powerful talk given by Elder Neil L. Anderson in his October 2014 General Conference talk on the Prophet Joseph Smith. In this talk he challenged youth to "gain a personal witness of the Prophet Joseph Smith." I decided to take his challenge and follow the principles listed in Preach My Gospel in regard to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
By carrying out this project I hope to gain and strengthen my witness that Joseph Smith was a true prophet, they he really did see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in the Sacred Grove, that he went on to restore the Church of Jesus Christ, and that I belong to that Church today. This project will also help me to strengthen my testimony of the Book of Mormon and of Joseph’s divine role in translating it.
This project will be personally meaningful to me and not just busy work because I will be able to follow counsel from a servant of God as to how to gain a deep and abiding personal witness of Joseph Smith’s calling. This project will lead me to a lifelong testimony and cherished witness that I will be able to continue to grow and strengthen.
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