How Can I Faith in this Scary World?

How Can I Have Faith When The World Seems So Scary?

Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin - Friend January 2007

* Always have faith, first of all, in our Heavenly Father and in His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ.

* Just move forward regardless of the world. As you read the scriptures, you will know what you should do.

*In every age we are faced with a choice. We can trust in our own strength, or we can journey to higher ground and come unto Christ.
* Keep busy in doing the right things. Peace and hope come from knowing the Lord and our Heavenly Father and following Their way of living.
*Sometimes the world appears dark. Sometimes our faith is tried. Yet we should not despair. We should never abandon our faith. We should not lose hope.
* Be of good cheer. Have faith and confidence. The Lord will not forsake you.

The Ordinary Things in Life....

Do Not Fear

Boyd K. Packer

"Find happiness in ordinary things, and

keep your sense of humor."

Why Would People Rally Against a False Claim?

Bruce R. McConkie

Pearl of Great Price Student Manual pg 57

Why should so many religionists unite against an unknown youth of no renoun or standing in the community?

Would the whole sectarian world shiver and shake and call for a sword if some other unknown 14 year old youth in an obscure frontier village should claim that he was visited by angels and that he saw the Lord?

The problem when Joseph Smith announced such a claim was that it was true and that Lucifer knew of its verity.....

Is not the persecution itself a witness of the reality of the First Vision? Or if it were not true, would the worldly wise and the intellectual religionists today devote their talents and means to defaming Joseph Smith and the work that bears his imprint?

What is it to anyone else what we believe unless they in their unbelief fear lest our doctrines are true and our practices may have divine approval.