How I Found The Church To Be True

As a kid I always had a passion for being outdoors and living life on the edge. Growing up in a small Idaho country town, farming, hunting, shooting, camping, playing sports, snowmobiling, and dirtbiking allowed me to be who I wanted and live the way I wanted to live.

During my first seventeen years of my life I was always blessed with the talents to do what I wanted and be good at it. I thought thats all there was in life was doing all these fun things. Going with my dad and brother hunting, snowmobiling, and dirtbiking. Going with my boys out on the town having a good ol time just being young kids. Just worrying about whats going on the next night and who we were gonna hang with and the girls that were gonna be there.

It was not tell about 4 months before I graduated Highschool in 2012 that I truly realized that those easy no worry days were coming to a hault. At that moment I Realized I needed to find better direction in my life and figure out what I wanted in life. Also during this time the things I was involved in where keeping me super busy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints was a lesser priority in my life, I went just to make my amazing loving parents happy. But I knew deep down its where I needed to be but I just wanted to live my fun filled life and not be controlled in anyway.

At this time I was trying to decide if I was gonna go to school or stay home on the farm and work. I could never make my choice and so I decide to use prayer and see if I could truly get my answer. I prayed and didnt get my answer for about a month but one day it just hit me that I should stay home and help out the family during harvest. So thats what I decide and I made up my mind, and at the time I didnt realize that it was an answer from my Heavenly Father.

As I stayed home and started farming and helping my brother build his house, I started to lose more direction in my life and started to stray from the path and start falling into temptation. As I got lower and lower on myself I seen I still needed more direction in my life. One night me and a close friend were talking and they shared ways that helped them find the path. So I took there advice and prayed to my Heavenly Father and pleaded with him to help me recieve an answer to what I needed in my life. As I pondered waiting for my answer a few days later a friend texted me and invited me to attend church with him the following sunday so I accpeted to go with him.

That sunday as I sat in sacrament meeting I had the most amazing and peacful feeling ever in my life and the thought "THE CHURCH IS TRUE" popped in my head and I could not believe the feelings I had that day. As I felt those feelings I had that day I made a decision that the church was for me and that I wanted it in my life forever, that small but simple moment has forever changed my life. My testiomony and desire to follow my saviors path has increased and it has led me down the path that I needed in my life.

If it was not for the people in my life I wouldnt be the person I em today. I hope and pray that all of us individually will truly take the time to think about what we have in life and what we want. I hope you have been touched by me experiences that are close and dear to my heart, and I challenge each one of you to experience your own true conversion. There is no better time to start then now!!

Elder Jaxon Wrigley