I love being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I joined back in 1964 after a long struggle with faith. I had loved the Savior ever since I could remember, but the church of my youth deserted me as it moved into the intellect movement of the 60's. Without spiritual guidance, I fell away. The Lord distinguished between the words of my mouth and the longing of my heart. He knew that I wanted to believe and so he sent a young woman who told me the story of the Restored Gospel. She bore her testimony of Jesus Christ and promised me that I could know for myself and have my own testimony.

Now forty-six years later I can only thank her from the bottom of my heart for introducing me to the church. Indeed I do have my own testimony. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet, called to restore Christ's church to the earth. We have a prophet today who leads and guides us. I am so grateful for Latter-day scriptures that bear testimony of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is the Word of God. It stands as another witness of the Savior and it's truths have touched my life in very personal ways.

I hope that my poetry reflects the growth of my testimony and my love for Jesus Christ.

Lori

I had a bunch of good girl friends in the 8th grade.  And as only girls can do, we wanted to be "alike" somehow.  But we didn't really want to dress alike or have our hair the same.  Then someone came up with the idea that if our names all ended in the letter "i" - we would have our way to be alike!  So we all changed our names and took nicknames.  Since I was Loretta, my name became Lori.

I don't know how my parents never learned of this.  Maybe they just ignored it, thinking it would go away. What I didn't realize was they were very invested in that name they had christened me.  They loved it.  It was just okay by me.  I liked "Lori" much better.  It had a special meaning for me.

So the years came and went and it was graduation.  I received my diploma and then afterwards ran to give it to my folks.  They took one look at it and I could tell something was wrong.  It said "Lori" instead of Loretta. They were not happy with me.


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