You guys becoming converted?
Of course.
Absolutely.
Little by little.
With this new program, I've got this.
Something is changing.
It's us.
We're not just listening and learning.
We're sharing, teaching, and acting.
We are becoming converted.
I think conversion is when you change your heart.
I'm totally converted.
I feel like I have a lot more to grow, a lot more things I
can do to improve, but I'm trying my best.
As we become converted, our hearts are opened and our
relationships with others change.
As a group, we've just grown closer together, and we've
started relying on each other more, helping each other.
Like I said earlier this week, we've been helping pull each
other along.
Well, we've always been really close, but we never really
shared our feelings with each other.
We're not going to sit down at night and say, "How was your
day?" But we've heard how they feel about things.
And about how the Spirit touches them.
We've become closer.
Well, it seems like, that once you go through this program,
your relationships with other people become better because
you're always sharing your own experiences.
You're always learning about other people.
And in the same sense, you get a better relationship with
your Savior, because you learn to share with Him and you
learn to receive His message for you.
As we become converted, we realize what the gospel is
doing for us, and we want to share it with others.
And I think that makes it easier, because you don't have
to work as hard to always try to be thinking to have
missionary experiences.
You're already thinking about the gospel, and your lesson
next week, or whatever.
So it's already on your mind, and it just comes up in
regular conversation and you know what to say.
You get that confidence to not only share in class, but share
outside of class with others not of our faith.
It's been able to give me that confidence that I need to bear
my testimony or to share the gospel with those
that don't have it.
Because the Spirit works on our hearts, we want to use the
Atonement to become clean and worthy.
Repentance is the best thing we have if you use
it the right way.
We get interviews all the time with the bishop, and I'm very
comfortable with him, and I'm very willing to tell him if
something is going wrong that maybe I need fixed, or ask him
questions when it comes to the Atonement.
And he's very willing to listen and answer and share
his own experiences also.
I wish everyone could just get rid of that fear, "Oh, the
bishop's going to hate me; the bishop's going to judge me."
He doesn't judge you.
He doesn't hate you.
He's going to love you, and I wish everyone could see that.
Go in there and take care of it, because it's worth it.
Filled with the love, peace, and forgiveness that come from
the Atonement, we become truly converted.
Beloved youth, you will have your trials, your temptations
through which you must pass.
But there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead.
You have our love and our confidence.
We say to you, arise and shine forth, and be a light unto the
world, a standard to others.