Shalet Godfrey

My favorite talk during conference was by Elder Jeffery R. Holland "Safety for the Soul". You can read it here: READ TALK

or watch it here (Sunday Afternoon Session, "Safety for the Soul", Elder Holland, audio) which I think is so so powerful and very moving: LISTEN TO TALK

Never have I heard a more spiritually driven talk about the Book of Mormon and the Prophet Joseph Smith. My friend said to me once that there may be things in the gospel that you question and a time where a testimony waivers on truths so then go back to the point where a testimony has been made sure and it will always fall back on the fact that Joesph Smith was a Prophet called of God. In gaining that testimony one will never be led astray. The story is just too incredible not to be true. Then if one believes that Joseph Smith was a prophet then one also knows that the Book of Mormon is true. I could never never deny the spirit that I have felt in my life testifying of those truths. Of all the books I have read the Book of Mormon is the only one that has changed and continues to change me as a person--making me want to be better, to do better. I love this by Elder Holland, "I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days." It has brought me happiness and hope and how grateful I am for the gospel in my life.