-It's amazing how fast people forget their promises to God and do what they want to do. Then when life isn't going the way we want we whine and complain about it.
-The stripling warriors had such great courage and faith that they desired to use it to go against their enemies and us the strength that their Father in Heaven had given them.

Helaman was a great example to the men he was over and taught them great lessons about having faith and relying on Christ. In the wars of life today we don't have to fight off the enemy with swards and spheres but we have to fight him off with our testimony and the tools (scriptures, prayer... )that we have been given to use today with the battles we face and fight every single day.

*Somedays I get discouraged and think about the blessings I wish I had or that I pray for all the time and haven't received and think what good does it do to pray, read my scriptures, go to church and do all of these things if I don't receive the blessings I pray for. I know that my will is not God's will that is want keeps me going. I am trying to better understand revelation and how my Father in Heaven talks to me but for now I just try to do the things I am asked by our Prophet and apostles to do.
I know Joseph Smith restored this Gospel of Jesus Christ to us in this dispensation so that we could partake of all the blessings God has for us. I know that President Thomas S. Monson is a Prophet today and he leads and guides this church and loves me. I know that my Heavenly Father lives and loves me and cares about me and my life and my decisions. I know without a shadow of a doubt that the Book of Mormon is the word of God given to us in this last day and that we can grow closer to Christ by study, prayer and abiding by it.  In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

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