Testimony Meeting

Sofia bore her testimony today about prayer. SHe is so good at doing this from her heart. She said something like: "i'd like to bear my testimony that prayer works. I know Heavenly Father helps you when you need help. Once [this was yesterday] I was at a garage sale with Lilian, and we wer looking at some things. When I looked up, Lilian had left, and I couldn't find her. So I said a prayer. I then thought of going back, but then she was right there. I know Heavenly Father helped me. In the name of Jesus Christ amen. So sweet.

She also had a talk in primary a few weeks ago. I had received a call that week, but as soon as I had listened to the message, I forgot about it, until we were already in church. So I whispered to her that she was supposed to have a talk that day, but she didn't have to do it if she felt uncomfortable as it was my fault she wasn't prepared. She wanted to do it. I told her the topic [missionary work] and she looked in the topical guide for some scriptures. She wanted 3, adn she wanted to read them to the class. She said it was ok if I wrote them down and some other things. So I wrote down like 3 sentences: 'you can talk about the experience of having the missionaries in our home with your friends frm school and their mom, or you can talk about hom mommy was baptized by papa. You can talk about how the Gospel makes you happy and that you want to share that. Bear your testimony'. That was plenty for her. She looked up some scriptures and while she looked them up, she started talking ' I was asked to talk about missionary work...' She kept talking about relevant things until she found the scripture, then find a way to weave that in. She did an amazing job, I was super poroud of her. There was only one thing: she was supposed to read Micah 4:3, but read Micah 3:3. That caused some raised eyebrows from her (please look it up, it will cause at least a chuckle, to some people a never to be forgotten funny experience), but I guess she assumed the relevant part was still coming, so she kept reading for a while. SHe finally figured it was wrong, so she apologized and read the correct one. She was amazing, and although it caused a lot of fun talk afterwards, I was extremely proud of her and the ease with which she does this. Go Fietje!!!