How To Gain Your Own Testimony of Jesus Christ

Yesterday in Primary we discussed our theme for the month of feasting upon the words of Christ. Everyone was given a copy of the Book of Mormon to read it by the end of the year as a primary challenge. Every time they read it, they get to put a pebble inside a bowl so we can see how much we are learning and doing the things that Heavenly Father asked us to do.

Furthermore, in our class we asked this question: How do I gain my own testimony of Jesus Christ? My answer that I gave my kids was 2-fold. One, do what we learned in opening exercises -- feast upon the words of Christ so that we may learn about his attributes, how he reacted to certain situations and read his words. Second, do what the Prophet has asked us to do  in the recent general conference talks as they are the spokesperson for him today. What was a main theme this past October? To keep the Sabbath Day more holy. We discussed different ideas on how we can do that.

Some kids said they don't do all the ideas I gave. So I encouraged them to ask their parents to try them. That lead to the question -- how do we strengthen our family? And how do we get our family to want to do those wholesome activities? What can we do for them if they don't want to?

Such thoughtful, sincere questions for only Valiant 10 children! They were soaking up everything. We didn't even have enough time to finish the lesson, let alone answer all of the questions that they had!