This last Fast and Testimony meeting, both Emma and Maddy decided they wanted to bear their testimonies. So, I (Randall) got to help them out. They were both apparently very encouraged by the experience, and I have a pretty good guess that they will both want to do it again. You see, every day, at least once, the girls bear their testimonies. They climb up on our stairs, pretending it is the podium, and, one at a time, go into their testimonies, all the while Gwen and I sit down and listen.
Emma and Madison's testimonies are very similar, and they go something like this:
"I love to bear my testimony, I love my testimony, I love my mom and dad, I love to bear my testimony, I love my mommy, and my testimony. Jesus lives, and I love my testimony. I love my dad, and I love my testimony. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. (Joseph Smith's name gets put in occasionally, usually about how they love him.) Sometimes they even say...I know Joseph Smith is God. Yeah, I know what you anti-mormons are thinking...but we're working on that one."
Anyway, Lana wants to be involved as well. So she insists on getting her own turn. Her testimony takes about the same length to complete, but she only ever says two things. On her way up the stairs, she says " mony, mony, mony, mony...." you get the point. Then, after what seems like 2.57 minutes, she promptly says Amen. It's all very cute.
The whole ordeal happens on multiple occasions, each day. They always have to have their morning devotional. Sometimes we can't get them to do anything else.
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