1. Don't tell the whole congregation about your terrible past, unless you have a purpose.
This girl ranted on and on about how much her life sucked! I was waiting to hear about a spiritual message that brought her life out of the garbage and back into the path of righteousness, but nope, she just kept on going on about how much she has been through, please, I don't feel sorry for you when you are saying all that stuff for attention.
2. Try to avoid describing every person in your family.
As though I didn't think it could get any worse, it did. She starts going on about how much her brother is amazing, and he is younger, and every body feature that can be said in seminary, not only does this make your testimony so much longer, it just makes the whole seminary class angry that you aren't even speaking about the spirit anymore!
3. Don't be repetitive.
If all of this wasn't enough to make me go crazy, I had to listen to her say that "She loves everyone of us" about 15 time in the 6 minutes she was talking. Not to mention all of the other repetitive statements.
4. Keep the Spirit Involve.
This was the sad thing about the whole thing, throughout the whole testimony she was focusing on herself, when the whole devotional thing was about keeping Christ in Christmas. She did mention being with her family for the first time in x amount of years for Christmas, but then she went on tell about her problems.
So all in all I would like to say, don't complain about your life, don't say you love the congregation 30 times, and please keep the spirit in the testimony!
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Criticizing someone's testimony? Controversial choice. Just kidding, I agree with you. Someone in my ward always talks about her drug-dealing sons, and about how they have spent so much time in jail. But she says nothing positive or spiritual at all!
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