Why I Built MyLDSTalks.com

I built MyLDSTalks.com because I needed a place for real LDS talks from real life — not perfect life, not fake-polished faith, but the kind of testimony that survives grief, fatherhood, failure, work, divorce, repentance, humor, and grace.

Not perfect life. Not fake-polished faith. Not the kind of testimony that pretends everything is fine when it is not.

I wanted a place for talks about faith, fatherhood, grief, repentance, work, divorce, loss, humor, and grace — written by a convert who has lived enough life to know testimony is not theory.

Testimony is not just something you say at a pulpit.

Sometimes testimony is getting up again after life knocks the wind out of you.

Sometimes it is sitting with grief and still choosing God.

Sometimes it is trying to be a better father when you know you have not always gotten everything right.

Sometimes it is repentance.

Sometimes it is forgiveness.

Sometimes it is laughing because crying got old.

And sometimes it is simply saying, “Lord, I am still here. Help me keep going.”

That is what this site is for.

MyLDSTalks.com is a public testimony library for people who still believe, still struggle, still laugh, still grieve, and still keep trying.

I am a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That matters because I did not grow up with all of this already built into my life. I came to it through experience, mistakes, questions, loss, work, family, and God’s patience.

I have three children. I have lived through enough chapters to know life does not always look like the clean version people post online. I have been through love, loss, fatherhood, hard work, failure, rebuilding, and moments where faith had to become more than a nice idea.

That is the voice of this site.

These talks will be faithful, but they will also be honest.

They will respect the Church, scripture, prophets, covenants, repentance, priesthood, family, and Jesus Christ.

But they will not pretend discipleship is always neat.

Because it is not.

Real faith gets tested in real life.

At work.

In marriage.

In divorce.

In grief.

In parenting.

In loneliness.

In mistakes.

In starting over.

In the quiet moments where nobody is clapping and you still have to choose the right thing.

That is where testimony is built.

My hope is that someone finds a talk here and thinks:

“I am not the only one.”

This site may eventually grow into audio talks, a podcast, contributors, devotionals, speaking, and other resources.

But the mission starts simple:

Real LDS talks for real life.

For people who still believe.

For people who are trying again.

For people who know grace is not a theory.

Welcome to MyLDSTalks.com