You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.

What's up, Sprout? Luke Helwig, back with you again. Today is May 5th, and we're continuing our discussion about how through our baptism we are all called to be missionaries and to share

the good news of Christ. So we talked about first that Jesus invites us to do this.

He says, go and make disciples of all nations. Then we talked about how before we can go out

and share the good news with others, we first have to fill our own heart with that love and with that

good news. Then third, how do we actually go? Well, we accompany people. We win them

over to ourselves and to the Lord, and we build them up in the faith and in virtue, and then we

send them out to invite others. So now today I want to share with you an awesome tool that you

can use throughout the whole process of accompanying others.

And it's your story, also called sharing your testimony.

So what is that?

Well, sharing your testimony is just sharing the way in which God has changed your own life

and sharing that with others so that they can see the impact that a life of Christ can have.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to share with you my testimony.

And then at the end, I'm going to break down the four parts of a testimony

and then encourage you guys to practice and learn your own testimony as well.

So here we go.

For me, my testimony really begins in sixth grade on the playground.

My closest group of friends, I had three really good friends.

Well, they all approached me on the playground, and they said,

You know, Luke, we don't really want to be your friend anymore.

Man. So as you can imagine, I was, I was really hurt and I was really sad. And I think for the first time in my life, that's where I truly experienced

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