The past few weeks I have been struggling to come up with a lesson
topic. Being in the Relief Society presidency, I get to teach the first
Sunday lesson in February. It's so interesting to me how last time I was
teaching, I knew exactly what I wanted to teach. I felt good about it
as I was preparing, and I felt good as I was delivering it. I knew that
the Spirit was guiding me. This time, however, I am really struggling to
come up with a topic. I've got about five that I could do, but I don't
get the "this is it" feeling from any one specific. As I've prayed about
it over the last few weeks, I decided yesterday in church that I would
just start going through old conference talks and see if anything jumps
out. The good thing about that is there are a lot of great talks that
I've been able to read, the bad thing, nothing jumps out still, so I
guess I'll keep going. Not that that's a bad thing. Anytime you have the
opportunity to read the words of our prophet and apostles is on that
you should take. I have found some great thoughts, and this is one that I
wanted to share. It comes from President Thomas S. Monson's talk called, "I Will Not Fail Thee, Nor Forsake Thee."
When I heard this talk, I just knew that it was a direct message from
the Lord, for me. As I have experienced many trials over the last few
years, I know that it is only to help me learn, grow, and become
stronger. I also love how it doesn't say "the trials through which we
MIGHT pass," but rather "through which we MUST pass." We are going to
have trials, it's part of why we're here on earth. It's part of our
learning process. We can do it. We have a Heavenly Father who is there
to comfort and guide us through the trials. They are necessary for us to
be able to return to Him someday.
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