Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February 17, 2019

"Little But Real Experiences": A Testimony by Rachel Armstrong

My testimony of Christ is built on lots of little but real experiences I have had. Sometimes I forget all of those experiences, but when I look at my testimony of Christ, it is this lovely chunk of lots of little moments. Sometimes it is easy for me to believe in Christ and the Church; it just feels natural and simple. But other times my brain gets in the way and I have a hard time emotionally until I opt back in to believing Christ, choosing to believe Christ. When I do that, I feel a beautiful, loving feeling and an openness toward the world and other people, which I believe is me feeling the fruits of the Spirit. One of those building blocks of my testimony of Christ happened a couple weeks ago. Matt went on a trip with his brother to California and Disneyland as my Christmas present to him. He had an incredibly stressful fall semester, with a new baby and supporting me and trying to work on his thesis, so I wanted to make sure that he got a real break, some real sleep, and some ti...