thoughts 11/30/11

I woke up this afternoon with a smile on my face and a renewed sense of self. I am still glowing from the feelings after visiting Temple grounds last night. I feel just like I did after I was baptized and I'm loving it! I can feel His love and protection. I have His armor on. I can feel the difference

I woke up with the following coursing through my mind.

That I was brought into the Church at this time for a reason. I had reached as far low as I could go, so there was nowhere else to go but up! I know He has something planned for me. Don't know what it is.. but I know that it will be important and great. I am willing to do what He commands.

Part of the reason I feel like I was supposed to join the Church is my experience was so different from how it normally works. I found an old email from when I contacted the missionaries. Here is the timeline:

May 2nd: I recieved prompting to fill out a missionary request online and I did.

May 5th: I received an email from an online set of missionaries. I wrote to them and told them plainly that I wanted to join the Church and needed to know how.

May 6th: First time meeting with Elders Cameron and Fellows

May 15th: First time going to Church.

May 22nd: I was baptized into the Church

May 29th: I was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

June 22nd: My first experience with the Holy Ghost helping me write my testimony and the Untitled poem.

July 3rd: I gave my testimony and poem at the fast and testimony meeting. It was well received. I remember being told that my testimony was strong for being a new convert and one person said that my poem belonged in the Ensign. I have had testimony to give at every fast and testimony meeting from then on out.

Those things do not happen sequentially or so fast for the normal convert. Leads me to think i'm not the normal convert
I know that He loves me just like He loves you and all of His children!

In the name of our Savior Jesus Christ,

Amen