Hard Times?

This is so true, we will have hard days.  I know that even though things seem so tough and difficult to face, the Lord will not leave us comfortless.  He will help us!  I love the the scriptures they teach us so much about this. 

1 Nephi 21: 14-16 read, "But, behold, Zion hath said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me—but he will show that he hath not.  For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee, O house of Israel.  Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me."

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Why do bad things happen to good people?   He didn't do anything wrong; why did that happen to him?  These are a couple of examples of questions that some of us have.  I have heard these a few times on my mission.  I have also heard with these the connection between problems happening to good people and the drastic assumption of there not being a God.  This is a bold and not true claim.  I will write about an example of bad things happening to good people, and how they used God to overcome.  My purpose in writing this is to help others more understand the purpose of trials in life, and that how we react to them affects the outcome of the whole experience.

Accident

Yesterday Elder Wells and I were leaving Walmart.  As we were stopped at a stop sign, an unfortunate event happened.  The Lady in the car behind us lost her footing on the brake and bumped the back of our car.  We found a place to park and went out to inspect the damage and visit with the lady.  She was very sorry and shook up.  The car had no damage, it was just a bump, so we talked with her about God and we went our separate ways. 

Tuesday Elder Leslie and I drove over to Wolf Point for meetings.  Tuesday morning was cold, we woke up to snow on the ground and frost on the windshield of our pickup truck.  If it being cold and chilly wasn't enough, the wind was blowing, the sky was overcast, and we were running a little behind schedule.  Near the end of our almost 50 mile trip to Wolf Point we saw this billboard.

Cause and Effect

A few weeks ago I took a trip up to the Canadian border.  It was a fun experience taking pictures of the signs and looking over into another country.  It was great because I have never been outside of the United States, and seeing another country was a fun experience even though we didn't cross over.  I drove up to the border with a few good friends.  We only spent a few minutes on the border and then we decided to start the long ride back to town.  To get back on the road we had to drive through the check station.  We didn't think that it would be a very big deal because it wasn't like we crossed the boarder or anything.  We just took pictures.  Anyway, we drove through the check station and a guy came out and talked with us.  He was upset because they nor the Canadian station knew what we were doing on the border.  We didn't get permission to drive up and take pictures before we actually did.  He asked for Identification from everybody.  To make things worse, my friend, Elder Thompson, didn't have his drivers license on him.