The Convert Files: Do I Make A Difference In My Calling?
I remember being called as an Elders Quorum President. I was relatively young and inexperienced. I wondered, are you being serious?
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Category: The Convert Files
The Convert Files: Driving in the Dark
How often do we drive along using borrowed light? Is it only when the darkness comes that we turn on our own lights?
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The Convert Files: Speaking in Tongues
That’s not speaking in tongues, it just sounds like you are saying gibberish,” I thought as I listened to the pastor babble on the stage in front of me.
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The Convert Files: Preparing for and Learning about the Temple
“You do know what they do in the temple, don’t you?” I can’t tell you how often I heard that after I joined the Church. Especially as I prepared to go to the temple for the first time. Some of I things I heard ranged from utterly comical to downright absurd. “Sure, I know what happens in the temple,” I thought. But did I really? I’d been through temple prep. I read the book ‘The Holy Temple’ by Boyd K. Packer. Didn’t they tell me everything I needed to know? Fast forward many years as I’m helping my wife...
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The Convert Files: Down with Stake Youth Dances!
Truly, what is the point of a stake youth dance? Does it have a worthy purpose, and if so, is it serving it?
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