Floral Cities and Henny Penny
This week at Church —Today the records of two new members to our Branch were read in! They are both single brethren and each bore an emotional testimony today during Fast and Testimony Meeting. One bore his testimony in his native language, Spanish, with our French/Spanish/Chinese speaking Elder as a translator. Fast and Testimony Meeting is held the first Sunday of each month where we come fasting from food and water for 2 meals over a 24-hour period. We give the cost of the missed meals to the Church to support those without daily food and with other needs. And we grow spiritually closer to Heavenly Father by placing our temporal needs to food secondary to our spiritual desire to be more in tune with the Voice of the Lord. It really works! The testimony portion is a free-will invitation to come to the microphone and share spiritual experiences where God has visibly blessed our lives during the past month. We talk about the role the Atonement of Jesus Christ has been manifes