Our jobs do more than pay bills. In long days, tired hands, difficult people, and honest effort, God teaches patience, humility, responsibility, and faith. Sometimes the work shaping our testimony is the work we almost overlooked.

A personal testimony about losing my daughter, questioning God, and finding peace through the Atonement of Jesus Christ — where mercy meets justice, and grief is not the price.

Being asked to speak in church is weird. A member of the bishopric says, “We would love for you to speak next Sunday,” and suddenly your brain forgets how regular people talk. You sit down to write something spiritual; and thirty minutes later you sound like a conference talk, a lesson manual, and a greeting card got trapped in the same body. That is not the goal. In April 1998 General Conference, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland gave a talk called “A Teacher Come from God.” In it, h