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Bearing Pure Testimony from Robert L.In rebuilding cars you will eventually need to repack wheel bearings.

Packer, “The Quest for Spiritual Knowledge,” New Era, Jan 2007, 2–7 Jensen, “Bearing Testimony,” Ensign, Oct 2005, 22–25 I have never been to one of their services, but I know Pappy Stoops, and if the Church produces men like Pappy Stoops, it has to have much good in it.” We never know the power of our own example for either good or bad. I have never met with the missionaries, and I have never studied the doctrine. One time a nonmember with whom he worked said something like this: “I don’t know much about the Mormon Church. Everyone called him “Pappy.” He was a kindly, gentle, wonderful, exemplary member of the Church. Brother Stoops worked at a machine shop in the little town of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. We lived in a little ward in which our stake patriarch also lived. In World War II, I was stationed at an army camp in Pennsylvania. I noted that we also bear our testimonies by our lives.

Russell Ballard, “Pure Testimony,” Liahona, Nov 2004, 40–43Īs this suggests, one sign that one is bearing testimony consists of the use of the word "I know", "I believe", "I testify", or some equivalent phrase.Įlder Faust explained that the Saints bear testimony that Jesus is the Christ through their example: My experience throughout the Church leads me to worry that too many of our members’ testimonies linger on “I am thankful” and “I love,” and too few are able to say with humble but sincere clarity, “I know.” As a result, our meetings sometimes lack the testimony-rich, spiritual underpinnings that stir the soul and have meaningful, positive impact on the lives of all those who hear them. To say that one is happy, or that one is thankful, or that one loves another, is not bearing testimony. I am grateful to my grandmother Elsie Ann Akerley, who as a young girl bore her testimony to this strange young man, Henry Jacob Faust from Germany, and helped convert him to the Church. At that time Grandfather was helping bring the railroad to Utah.

Grandfather was later appointed by President Brigham Young to be the first bishop of Corinne, Utah. I believe he was converted in the main by the testimony of this young girl he met by the well in Fillmore. Grandfather was not converted to the Church by the missionaries. Grandfather went to California and stayed only long enough to get enough gold for a wedding band and then came back to Fillmore, where they were married. She had crossed the plains with the pioneers. Grandfather was not a member of our Church. There he met a young lady named Elsie Ann Akerley. As he was going southward through Utah, he stopped at a well in a little town called Fillmore. The family went to the United States, and Grandfather Faust went through Salt Lake City on his way west to find his fortune in the goldfields of California. My great-grandfather Henry Jacob Faust was born in a small village called Heddesheim in Rheinland, Prussia. Faust, when he was Second Counselor in the First Presidency, related the story of his grandfather's conversion: This is a confirmation of the simple truth given by Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:3 "that no man can asay that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost."Įlder James E. Packer stated "a testimony is to be found in the bearing of it". It is most frequently by the bearing of testimonies, sometimes in Church meetings, and sometimes in more intimate settings, that people come to be touched by the spirit.īoyd K. The Gospel is shared, by and large, by the bearing of testimonies. 1 The Importance of Bearing a Testimony.