Trials of Faith
in ascending
order.
Here is a list of
the Trials of Faith in Mortality, one of the great
LDS games, starting with the ones
requiring the fewest testimonies, and increasing to the ones requiring the most:
Attend a very uplifting sacrament meeting.
If you have 15 or more Testimonies, you’re enough in tune to receive 10 more.
Receive an especially spiritual home teaching visit.
If you have 15 or more Testimonies, gain 5.
Your home teacher gains 5 also.
Your next-door neighbor is curious about the Gospel.
If you have 15 or more Testimonies, you introduce him to the missionaries and
gain 15.
Your furnace quits working on Christmas Eve.
If you have less than 20 Testimonies, it ruins your Christmas and you lose 10.
If you have 20 or more, build a fire in the fireplace and gain 10 Testimonies.
You’re asked to accept a calling as Relief Society hymnbook
coordinator.
If you have 20 Testimonies or more, accept the calling and gain 15.
If you have less than 20, decline and lose all your Testimonies.
You find out that your home pupil is ill.
If you have 20 or more Testimonies, you offer to help, and you both gain 7.
If you have less than 20, decline to help, and you both lose 5.
Someone is grumpy to you at church.
If you have 25 or more Testimonies, gain 15.
If you have less than 25, lose 15.
Find weevils in your wheat.
If you have 25 or more Testimonies, gain 10.
If you don’t, lose 5.
You have a new baby in your family.
Draw 1 Wisdom Card.
If you have 25 or more Testimonies, the baby gets a blessing, and you get 8
Testimonies.
If not, you lose 3.
Everyone in the family is crabby for Family
Home Evening, and no one listens to your lesson.
If you have 25 or more Testimonies, gain 10.
If not, lose 5.
You have an opportunity to fellowship another ward member
(player). If you have 30 or more Testimonies, take advantage of the opportunity
and gain 15 more. Choose another member who will be the recipient of your
fellowshipping, and that member receives 10.
If you have less than 30, pass up this opportunity and lose 5 Testimonies.
You just broke your arm playing on the kids’ jungle gym.
If you have 30 or more Testimonies, gain 15 more.
If you don’t, lose 5
Your daughter’s pet gerbil gets out and your
neighbor’s cat eats it.
If you have 30 or more testimonies, you forgive and forget and gain 15.
If you don’t, lose 15.
Your car breaks down on the way to Church.
If you’re the bishop, advance to Reorganize the Ward, and a new bishop will be
called.
If you have 30 or more Testimonies, gain 10 more and draw 1 Wisdom Card.
If you have less than 30, lose all your Testimonies.
Your children come home from school with lice.
If you have 35 or more Testimonies, gain 10.
If not, lose 10.
Draw 1 Wisdom Card.
A hailstorm wipes out your tomato plants.
Draw 1 Wisdom Card.
If you have 35 or more Testimonies, you weather the storm and gain 20 more.
Otherwise, lose all your Testimonies.
Your home teacher fails to visit you for two months in a
row.
If you have less than 40 Testimonies, lose 10.
If you have more than 40 Testimonies, you don’t gain any more, but you gain 2
Wisdom Cards.
If your home teacher is the bishop, he needs to advance to Reorganize the Ward,
and a new bishop will be called.
Your visiting teacher just drops by unannounced, and your
house is a mess!
If you have less than 40 Testimonies, you are offended and lose 10.
If you have 40 or more, offer her a piece of banana bread and gain 10.
You’re asked to serve on the clean-up committee for the New
Year’s Eve party.
Draw 1 Wisdom Card.
If you have 40 or more Testimonies, gain 15.
If you have less than 40, the assignment is too much of a trial for you. Lose
all your Testimonies.
The ward basketball team comes in last place in the stake
tournament.
If you have 40 or more Testimonies, gain 20.
If you don’t, lose your cool and all your Testimonies, but if another player
offers to fellowship, draw 1 Wisdom Card.
Your ancestor is trying to get you inspired to do
genealogy.
If you have 45 or more Testimonies, respond to the prompting and gain 20 more.
Your dog gets into the neighbor’s garden and eats all their
green peppers.
If you have less than 45 Testimonies, you pick a fight with them and lose 10.
If you have 45 or more, take them the peppers from your own garden as you
apologize, and gain 15 Testimonies.
Your home teachers track mud on your
recently shampooed carpets.
If you have 45 or more testimonies, gain 15 more.
If you don’t, you refuse to see them next month and lose 15.
A flood hits your neighborhood.
If you have 50 or more Testimonies, invite the player closest to you on the
board to stay at your space until their house is cleaned out. You get 15
Testimonies, your neighbor gets 10.
Your neighbor doesn’t draw a Trial of Faith.
If two or more players are closest to you, choose one.
Your new boss just doesn’t like you and gives you the pink
slip.
Draw 1 Wisdom Card.
If you have 50 or more Testimonies, gain 20.
Otherwise, lose 20
Your business rival moves into the ward.
If you have 55 or more Testimonies, extend a warm hand of fellowship and gain 25
more.
If you have less than 55, lose 20.
A blight destroys all the fruit trees you planted last
spring.
If you have 60 or more Testimonies, gain 15 more.
If you don’t, lose 10.
In either case, draw 1 Wisdom Card.
A family of mice has built a nest in your
teenage son’s stash of Twinkies.
If you have 60 or more Testimonies, respond in a kindly way and gain 20 more.
If you don’t, you holler at your son and lose 20.
The bishop offers you an opportunity to help support a
missionary in the ward.
If you have 70 or more testimonies, or if you’ve been on a mission, agree to
help and gain 25 more. Also, the bishop gains 5.
If you don’t have 70 testimonies, decline and lose 25.
Financial troubles force you to sell your
home.
If you have less than 75 Testimonies, lose 20.
If you have 75 or more, you find a nice cozy smaller home, learn to do with
less, and gain 25 Testimonies.
