Jesus Christ is my Savior

It is interesting to look back and recognize the different paths I chose in life to get to where I am today.  I am so imperfect.  I have made many poor decisions that have started to lead me off of the straight and narrow path which leads to eternal life.  Of course I am not proud of these things, but I am certainly grateful for the lessons that I have learned in these trials that I have overcome. They have truly shaped me into the woman I am today.  I am forever grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, who 'suffered these things for all, that (we) might not suffer if (we)would repent' (D&C 19:16).  I often think of Alma the younger's experience in the Book of Mormon.  He relays the amazing contrast between the torment he felt before he repented and the joy he felt after he repented.  He said '...Yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!' (Alma 36:20) And in verse 21: '...There could be nothing so exquisite and so bitter as were my pains...on the other hand there can be nothing so exquisite and sweet as was my joy.'  I know I haven't suffered the 'pains of a damned soul' as Alma the younger did in his experience, but  I can relate in so many ways to the 'joy' of repentance exceeding the greatness of the pain you feel in times of sin.  I have a burning testimony of the reality and power of repentance.  Jesus Christ is truly our Savior and provided the way for us to overcome not only physical death, but also spiritual death.  Without our Savoir, Jesus Christ, I (all of us) would be lost in the dark.  Thankfully,  'God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotton Son' (John 3:16).  Because of this, I (all of us) am able to experience the light of the gospel everyday. And 'Happiness in this life and eternal life in the world to come. God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son!' (The Living Christ)