Moroni

I had this experience come back into my mind this morning, and it had been a little while since I thought about it. Forgive me if I have already shared it in one form or another.

Several months ago one of my friends who is not LDS told me she had been working with Moroni. This is a pretty uncommon type of statement to make so let me attempt to make sense of it. This friend does energetic readings on people which is just what it sounds like. She reads their energy, senses it, tells them whats going on with them, helps to give them some direction and regularly receives messages from the spirit world to deliver to these people.

A sort of side effect of this work, for me and others that I know, is hearing messages from the spirit world through out every day. The danger in this is that there are MANY in the spirit world who are working for Satan and they OFTEN will look or sound or even feel like angels of light! Tricky and not cool! This side effect in my life made me pull back from this energetic sensitivity for a time--because I got confused for a while by the messages and I didn't realize how careful I had to be. I most definitely learned from that experience.

Well, when my friend shared with me that she had been working with Moroni when doing work on some LDS people, my automatic, whole hearted response was, "I want to work with Moroni!" This desire stayed actively with me for a while. I wanted to have an experience with Moroni.

Several weeks later I had a little devotional lesson with my children. I had pictures out and I was teaching them about the restoration of the gospel. We saw a picture and learned that when Moroni was a man on the earth, the Lord told him to bury the golden plates so that they would be protected. I told them that after Moroni died he turned into an angel and he came to tell Joseph Smith where he buried the golden plates. As I was teaching them about Moroni, I felt his presence enter the room, accompanied by a clear testimony to my heart from the spirit that this was Moroni. I was able to describe to them what he was like, because I could feel what he was like. This was a precious experience and I don't feel that I will likely share too many more of this nature as they happen, but it taught me an important truth. When true messengers from the Lord come, they come for an important reason (one of which was to help me testify to my children of truth) AND when these messengers come one way that you can recognize them is by the testimony of the spirit.

[There are other ways to discern visible spirits clarified in the D&C.]

I am grateful for this special experience and that because of it I will always remember the first time I taught and testified to my children of the restoration.