- JUNE 2016
- THE WHAT AND WHY AND HOW OF BEARING A TESTIMONY
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
The What and Why and How of Bearing a Testimony
From “President Kimball Speaks Out on Testimony,” New Era, Aug. 1981, 4–7; capitalization standardized.
Testimony meetings are some of the best meetings in the ward in the whole month, if you have the Spirit. If you are bored at a testimony meeting, there is something the matter with you, and not the other people. You can get up and bear your testimony and you think it is the best meeting in the month; but if you sit there and count the grammatical errors and laugh at the man who can’t speak very well, you’ll be bored, and on that board you’ll slip right out of the kingdom. …
Don’t you ever worry about triteness in testimony.
A testimony is not an exhortation; a testimony is not a sermon (none of you are there to exhort the rest); it is not a travelogue. You are there to bear your own witness. It is amazing what you can say in 60 seconds by way of testimony, or 120, or 240, or whatever time you are given, if you confine yourselves to testimony. We’d like to know how you feel. Do you love the work, really? Are you happy in your work? Do you love the Lord? Are you glad that you are a member of the Church?
You bear your testimony. And one minute is long enough to bear it.
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