Words of Living Apostles of Jesus Christ

If you refer to my last post, you know that I'm a Mormon. (If you want to know more, check out my profile on Mormon.org. You can find it here.) Yay!! I love being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with all my heart. Over the weekend, the entire church membership had the opportunity to hear from God's living prophet on the earth and His living apostles. I love this opportunity that we get twice a year. I love the men and women who lead this worldwide church. They are called of God and are divinely inspired.

This weekend brought answers to prayers and huge tender mercies to me. I have noticed how often, when life is particularly trying, the Lord gives us some extra powerful, poignant blessings and experiences to help us through and to reassure us that He is there. The talk below was one of those for me this weekend. I had been praying about serving a mission and Heavenly Father helped me know that my role and "mission" as a woman is enough. I would suggest to all women, everywhere, that your identity as a daughter of God is real and powerful. You are enough. You are good enough just because of who you are. Listen to this talk. Feel of the truth of who you are and of what you can do if you will follow the Lord's plan for you. I am so grateful to be a woman. I look forward to the missions I will fulfill as a wife and a mother someday and I know that those are the most important things I will ever do in my whole life.

Seeing as I have brought Elder D. Todd Christofferson into this post, let me continue with some of his recent stories and thoughts that I have been clinging to lately. First, "The Will of God." I love this story.  It is about Elder Hugh B. Brown and I am ever so grateful for his example. There have been days in my life that I too have "bitterness in my soul" when things do not go the way I hoped. I am trying so hard to learn to accept God's will and not let my personal feelings and desires affect my obedience, or my gratitude or my submissiveness. I love Him and I know that when He "cuts us down" it is because He loves us and in His Omniscient wisdom, He has a future prepared for us that is more grand and glorious than we can imagine. We just have to TRUST Him. 

In my efforts to try and be better at submitting to the will of God, I have found great counsel in the following video: To ask for my daily bread, rather than anguishing in trying to find peace about the future. I have found great solace in asking for just enough faith for this day, in asking for the experiences I need to help me learn and love God and my fellowman today. Praying like this has helped me come closer to God, and has kept me more humble and less fearful. I know that the Lord can give me what I need to get through today. I pray that you'll find the same power in the concepts presented in these videos. 

In closing, may I quote President Dieter F. Uchtdorf who gave some of the wisest counsel I have ever heard. He said:

"DOUBT YOUR DOUBTS BEFORE YOU DOUBT YOUR FAITH."