Mallory and Neal and I had our Sunday Meeting this morning and talked about the gospel and how much it means in our lives. We also talked about how grateful we are for all the blessings we have and that we need to look for all the good around us. Even with the earthquakes and the COVID-19 going on we still are incredibly blessed.
Mallory has had some hard decisions to make during that past month or two and recognizes the guidance of our Heavenly Father in her life. She was planning on going to England this fall but has since figured out that England isn't where she is supposed to be and will be headed to Georgia this fall to live with Emmi and go to school there. She is also getting a new puppy to take along with her, something she has wanted to do for some time.
She read this as we closed our lesson and I thought it was a perfect Sunday Thought during this time in our lives when so many things have changed. Not going to church on Sundays, Temples closed and slowly reopening, missionaries brought home from foreign countries, general conference viral again in October. It seems almost as though the world has come to a stand still but this paragraph recorded by Joseph Smith in 1842 is perfect:
"The standard of truth has been erected. No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done." Joseph Smith, 1842
And to that I say Amen! " Hold to the rod, the iron rod. Tis strong and bright and true. The iron rod is the word of God. Twill safely guide us through!"
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