5 point Testimony

This is how we need to bear our Testimony whenever we feel we need to , remembering these 5 major poionts which are so important in our relationship to our Saviour and Heavenly Father, our belief in the one true Church on the face of the earth, and in a living Prophet in these latter-days since the days of joseph Smith and his role in restoring the truth on earth through the Angel Moroni as organised by our Saviour. A Testimony is wonderful

Sharing the 5 points of a testimony with 'The Testimony Glove'
Published: Thursday, June 30, 2011 4:00 a.m. MDT By Christine Rappleye,
It all seemed to start simply enough.
It was from a Worldwide Leadership Training broadcast when Sister Kristen M. Oaks heard Sister Sydney S. Reynolds, first counselor in the General Primary Presidency from 1999 to 2005, quoting a November 1998 general conference talk by Sister Susan L. Warner, point out the five points of a testimony that leaders should be teaching children. Sister Warner, then-second counselor in the Primary General Presidency, held up her hand and counted off the five foundations.
Provided by Sister Kristen M. Oaks
Primary children in Korea show their testimony gloves. The testimony gloves include the five foundation points of a testimony. Those five points are knowing that God is their Heavenly Father; Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer; Joseph Smith is a prophet of God; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord's church on earth today; and the church is led by a living prophet.
"When we were teaching a mission presidents seminar, we decided to use those five points just using pictures," said Sister Oaks, who at the time was serving in the Philippines with her husband, Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve.
Then the idea of using a glove with a picture on each finger for each point was developed, and soon Sister Oaks was taking gloves with her as she and Elder Oaks traveled around the world.
"It took on a life of its own," Sister Oaks said of how thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the gloves have been made, distributed and used since 2003.
The glove represent the Holy Ghost.
"They are so clear and so simple, and you always have your hand," Sister Oaks said.
The book "The Testimony Glove," which tells the story of a little girl and her testimony, was published recently by Deseret Book.
testimonygloves.blogspot.com, these five fundamentals of a testimony are available in nearly two dozen languages along with links to ideas for sharing time and family home evening lessons. The Friend magazine also published an activity on the Testimony Glove in the October 2008 issue. Barb McKeown from Washington, D.C., wrote "My Testimony."
Creating the testimony gloves
JoAnn Phillips helped make the first testimony gloves. She and her husband, a physician, were serving in the Philippines area. Phillips worked in the area office, volunteered with Sister Oaks at a local charitable organization and also worked in the temple.
The first ones were made out of paper, and they used hand-drawn pictures. They put together kits with the glove, pictures and a handout explaining it.
At one point, Phillips decided she needed to see if the testimony gloves worked.
She shared it in Primary in a local ward where they made the kits and practiced testimonies.
Phillips and her husband were the sacrament meeting speakers, and she explained about the testimony gloves that the children had learned about in Primary.
She asked a 9-year-old boy named Dan to come up and bear his testimony.
"It just amazed me how well he did," said Phillips, of the Fruit Heights 8th Ward, Fruit Heights Utah Stake in Fruit Heights. "It changed the way people bore testimonies."
They started using cloth gloves and pictures from the LDS Church's Gospel Art Kit.
"Children need to see real pictures," Sister Oaks said. "If they are looking at a cartoon, they are seeing it as a cartoon. When you are teaching spiritual things, you need to have the referent or the real thing."
Provided by Sister Kristen M. Oaks
Primary children in Korea show their testimony gloves. The testimony gloves include the five foundation points of a testimony. When Phillips returned from serving in the Philippines, she continued to make the kits for Sister Oaks to pass out. Others heard about it and wanted to help put the kits together.
People from California to Hawaii to Canada contacted her, and just about every organization, including Young Women, Primary and Relief Society groups at both the stake and ward level, wanted to be involved, as did individuals.
Lillian O'Neil, of the Olympus 3rd Ward, Olympus Utah Stake in Holladay, Utah, heard of the gloves as ward members who served in the Philippines had heard about the gloves from Sister Oaks.
"I really enjoy finding service projects that people can do in their homes," O'Neil said. In addition to church groups that helped put together the testimony glove kits, her 89-year-old parents, Leonard and Mildred, helped, too, along with others who were homebound and one woman who was legally blind.
"This has been a lot of people helping and a lot of youth groups would want to do them for a service project," O'Neil said.
Sister Oaks and Phillips were at a fireside with about 800 Young Women at Christmas time.
"Their testimonies changed making them," Sister Oaks said. "There is story after story about people who are working on them.
"The people who make the gloves, it changes their lives," Sister Oaks said.
Teaching about testimony
As she travels, Sister Oaks takes the gloves with her, leaving only a little bit of room in her suitcases for her personal items.
Sharing the gloves is more than passing them out. Primary children put on the glove, which represents the Holy Ghost. Then, they put the pictures on the appropriate finger as they discuss each of the five points.
"You have to be a participant," Sister Oaks said of the glove and sharing a testimony, adding that the glove is not just something nice to look at.
She has passed out the gloves and kits in many countries — Japan, Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Romania and Samoa — as well as to mothers in places in Africa. Others have shared testimony gloves in their own wards across the United States. She has also used the concept when she has spoken at single adult conferences. The gloves have also been given to missionaries and mission presidents.
There is more to this, but I felt that this was all that is necessary for readers to get the picture of the 5 point Testimony