Savior of the World Auditions

I think it is a good time to tell you about the experience I had when I tried out for Savior of the World last week. It was so amazing!  The church is true!
I have felt the strong need to try out for Savior of the World this year, and Wednesday I had my audition.  I don’t know if you knew this, but ever since I was little tiny, it has been my dream to be Mary in that show.  Anyway, so Adam helped me prepare a song to sing, and I was feeling pretty good about it.  I went into my audition, and saw a lot of familiar faces, and talked with people that I have know for years. That sort of calmed my nerves.  They took about 8 of us into a room and we all sang our songs, and I felt really good about mine, and the director had some very nice things to say about my performance. Next they took all of us into a room for further auditions.  I thought I would be done after singing!  So they had us read lines from the show.  It just so happened, wink wink, that we read from one of my favorite scenes in the whole show.  I don’t know if you remember the part, but it’s when all the women are preparing to meet Christ after He had risen, and the little children are asking them a lot of questions.  They take it as a teaching opportunity to tell about the Savior and why He had to die.
I got to read for MARY from my FAVORITE part of the show.  As soon as I started talking to the little boy, I lost it.  I couldn’t read the paper.  I could hardly get the words out.  I was so overwhelmed with the spirit, and I was baring my testimony through those lines.  Mary explains that when Christ was 12, she and Joseph lost him for 3 days.  He told them that he was going about His Father's business.  Mary relates it to how for 3 days after the Savior died, it felt as if they had lost Him again, but that it was again His Father's will.  He died so that He could take up His spirit, and us with Him.  It felt so real to me, and I knew it was all true. I seriously wept!  For like 10 minutes.  Everyone else in the room was crying too.  It was such an amazing experience for me.  All of us in the audition basically became best friends, and we just gave each other big hugs even though it was the first time we had ever met.  We are brothers and sisters in the gospel, and that knowledge brought us together at that time.  Even if I don’t make Savior of the World, I am so grateful for that opportunity.  I love my Savior so much, and “will follow Him whereEVER He wants me to go.” :)