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Elder Ballard’s Questions Can Now Be Answered on MormonTestimonies.org

April 25th, 2008 by Richard K Miller | 2 Comments | Filed in Announcements, Member missionary work, Mormon, Online missionary work, Testimonies

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We’ve just launched a new version of MormonTestimonies.org and we’ve changed our assumption of what a “testimony” is. Instead of sharing your “one” testimony, MormonTestimonies.org now encourages you to share multiple “testimonies.” You might share your testimony of the Savior, or of tithing, or of the Book of Mormon.

You might also share applications of Gospel teachings. In fact, Elder Ballard recently spoke about “taking part in everyday conversations in an unforced way, where your values and your religious beliefs will arise naturally.” He listed several questions you might answer online:

  • How do your beliefs lift and shape your life for the better?
  • How does the gospel help you as a parent engage with your teens?
  • How do your values encourage you to participate in civic affairs?
  • How has your experience as a home or visiting teacher enlarged your compassion or care for the sick and needy?
  • How has your Church life helped you to avoid such things as pornography and immorality?
  • How have family councils or home evenings helped you resolve differences of opinion with members of your family?
  • How has your experience in speaking in church helped you address large public groups?
  • Where did you learn to respect and not to criticize other faiths?

Source: Elder Ballard’s speech given at BYU Management Society

We’ve preloaded these and other questions into MormonTestimonies.org. Each time you visit the site (or refresh your browser) a new question will be loaded. Feel free to answer these questions, or write something else entirely. If you think of other questions we might ask, please leave them in the comments below.

(If you had a user account on the old MormonTestimonies.org site, please contact us to get a new username and password.)

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