Gratitude for the Gospel and My Testimony

When we were trick or treating with the kids, as we were walking up to a house in our neighborhood, Chloe began to sing "I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  I know who I am. I know God' plan and I'll follow Him in faith."  I have been thinking about her singing that song.  She sang it with such conviction and so proudly.

As I have been pondering those things that I am grateful for, I too am so grateful that I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am grateful that I know who I am and where I came from.  I am grateful that I have heavenly parents that love me and know me.  I am grateful that I too know God's plan - I am here to receive a body, be tried and tested and return to His presence one day.  I am grateful for the knowledge that I have of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I am grateful for the opportunity that I have been given to be born under the covenant to parents that taught me the gospel and fostered my own testimony.  I am grateful for my own testimony and the confirmations that I have received when I have asked my Heavenly Father of the truthfulness of the gospel.  I am grateful to a 15-year old boy who knelt in a grove of trees seeking guidance and direction.  I am grateful for the priesthood and the opportunity that I have to have the priesthood so prevalent in my home.  I am grateful for modern day prophets that we are able to receive counsel from and gives us direction.  I am grateful for temples here on the earth and that I am sealed to the love of my life and our boys for time and eternity - that when we leave this mortal existence, we will still be a family.  I do know that I belong to the true church and that I am a daughter of a Heavenly Father.  The knowledge of the restored gospel and my testimony are also among my most prized treasures.