"We live, brothers and sisters, in the days preceding the Lord’s Second Coming, a time long anticipated by believers through the ages. We live in days of wars and rumors of wars, days of natural disasters, days when the world is pulled by confusion and commotion.
But we also live in the glorious time of the Restoration, when the gospel is being taken to all the world—a time when the Lord has promised that He “will raise up … a pure people”4 and arm them “with righteousness and with the power of God.”5
We rejoice in these days and pray that we will be able to courageously face our struggles and uncertainties. The difficulties of some are more severe than those of others, but no one is immune. Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said to me, “If everything is going perfectly for you right now, just wait.”
Although the Lord reassures us again and again that we “need not fear,”6 keeping a clear perspective and seeing beyond this world is not always easy when we are in the midst of trials."-- Thy Kingdom Come, By Elder Neil L. Andersen, Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, April 2015 General Conference
Today is one of those days that Elder Maxwell warned about. :-( Sometimes I think I'm not very good at courageously facing my struggles. Mortality is a mess.
That's my two cents.
I say you are very good at facing your trials with courage!
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