Troubled On Every Side, Yet Not Distressed

Your Dad and I wanted to share this thought from the September Ensign with you even if you have read it. It is from the article by Elder Soares. It is a great promise to us.

"To enter the strait gate of the gospel, we must be willing to submit to, and bear with patience, "all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon (us)" (Mosiah 3:10). Opposition in all things is part of the eternal plan of happiness (see 2 Nephi 2:11). But when we accept trials with humility, pleading to be comforted by the Lord through His Atonement, we have more confidence that we can overcome our current challenges and we are better prepared to face future challenges.

In his second epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul declared:

"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

"Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

"Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

"For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh" (2 Corinthians 4:8-11).

According to the Apostle Paul, even though we may be troubled in times of adversity, we will not be alone, for the Lord Himself will take us by the hand. He will be at our side if we remain faithful and acknowledge his hand in all things."

We love each and every one of you and pray for you and your little ones to be happy and to be protected and to successful every day.

Mom and Dad