This is my lovely wife, Lucy.
I'm Craig Reynolds.
We're the father and mother of six wonderful boys.
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I think everybody can be good missionaries, whether it's
serving a full-time mission or whether
it's just in our wards.
Wherever we are, we need to share the gospel.
Share what we believe.
All we need to do to be a missionary is to live our
lives and to open our mouths.
Missionary work is all about having the right attitude.
Anyone can be a missionary; they just have to start now.
It's you yourself who has to first gain a strong testimony
of the truth.
While on a mission, you're not going to say, "I know that my
mom knows that this is true." It's all about what you know
to be true.
And so I need to study the gospel because I have the
priesthood--this amazing gift from Heavenly Father and Jesus
Christ to act and perform in Their name.
I could change lives.
I could bring happiness and joy to everyone around me.
I can still remember the night when I prayed to know if the
Book of Mormon was true before the mission.
And I still remember the feelings that I felt.
And it was just kind of a warm, calm feeling that swept
over my whole body.
And it was in that moment that I knew that the Book
of Mormon was true.
I know that the Book of Mormon is true.
I've read, and I know of its truthfulness.
I have the testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ.
I know that it's the only true Church upon the
face of this earth.
One important thing is to know how happy our Father in Heaven
will be when we share our testimony with His children,
because as you share that testimony, it'll start to grow
and it will become stronger.
And it's then that the gospel will be natural to you and
you'll be able to share it with anyone at any moment.
I just think that I could be changing someone's life
because they could accept it, you know?
And I could be a huge difference.
I try to look for missionary experiences that I can have in
daily life, because it not only helps you learn and helps
get comfortable talking about things that you believe in and
know, but also other people that might be struggling.
The more I talked with people, the more I shared just the
simple things about the Church, the more I was able to
gain that missionary spirit of wanting everybody I meet to
have that same joy and happiness that I have in my
life because of the gospel.
No matter what your age, you can still be a missionary.
Missionary work is just sharing the gospel.
You've just got to have faith and believe that you can do
tremendous things.
And so we, as members of the Church and as disciples and
examples of Christ, should not be bashful about the knowledge
that we know that this Church is true.
We need to stand up and share our testimonies and our
knowledge of the truth of this gospel with those around us.
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