You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.

Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

That solid basis for a foundation of faith is personal integrity.

The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far that only the meek and lowly will keep going long enough. The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a grade; he does it because the process will change us.