Testimonies
Personal testimonies of the Gospel — what members know, and why they believe.
From the Testimonies section
Earlier testimonies from the archive — these entries keep their home in the Testimonies section; follow a card to read it there.
Ezra Taft Benson
Salt Lake City, Utah · President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (thirteenth); Apostle
President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994), thirteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered this solemn, apostolic witness in the…
Alma Sonne
Salt Lake City, Utah / London, England (European Mission) · Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; President, European Mission
Elder Alma Sonne (1884–1977) served as an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1941 until his death, and as president of the European Mission. Ac…
Elijah Abel
Frederick, Maryland / Cincinnati, Ohio / Kirtland, Ohio / Salt Lake City, Utah · Elder; Seventy (Third Quorum); missionary
Elijah Abel (1808–1884) was one of the earliest African-American members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its first African-American elder an…
Ronald A. Rasband
Salt Lake City, Utah · Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles bore his witness in the October 2016 general conference address 'Lest Thou Forget,' born of a frien…
Neil L. Andersen
Salt Lake City, Utah · Member, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles bore witness of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon at a Cache Valley young adult devoti…
F. Enzio Busche
Germany / Salt Lake City, Utah · Emeritus General Authority (Quorum of the Seventy)
Friedrich Enzio Busche (1930–2020) was a German convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who became a General Authority. As a young man in the…
Harrison Burgess
Putnam, New York / Kirtland, Ohio / Pine Valley, Utah · Member of the Seventy; Bishop; missionary
Harrison Burgess (1814–1883) was an early Latter-day Saint convert, a member of the Seventy, a Zion's Camp volunteer, and a lifelong witness of the Book of Morm…
Henry Burkhardt
Freiberg, German Democratic Republic (East Germany) · President of the East German stakes; Freiberg Temple president
Henry Burkhardt (1924–2001) was the leader who kept The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints alive in Communist East Germany, and whose faith President T…
Margaret McIntire Burgess
Nauvoo, Illinois
Margaret McIntire Burgess (1837–1919) preserved some of the tenderest childhood memories of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Her recollections were published as 'Memor…
John Lowe Butler
Simpson County, Kentucky / Missouri / Spanish Fork, Utah · Bodyguard to the Prophet Joseph Smith; Bishop of Spanish Fork
John Lowe Butler (1808–c. 1858) was a Kentucky-born Mormon frontiersman who served as a bodyguard to the Prophet Joseph Smith and later as bishop of Spanish For…
John Bushman
Joseph City, Arizona / Lehi, Utah · Pioneer and Arizona settler
John Bushman (1843–1926) was, in his family's words, 'truly a pioneer's pioneer' — born in Nauvoo, a settler of Joseph City, Arizona, and a lifelong diarist who…
Richard Lyman Bushman
Salt Lake City, Utah / Portland, Oregon
I was born in Salt Lake City to parents who had been married in the temple. I am a fifth-generation Mormon on both my mother's and father's sides; I had ancesto…