As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.

Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.

We see God's miracles in His wondrous work and in our own personal lives.

We are all in this together. With fellow ward members and missionaries, we plan and pray and help one another. Please keep the full-time missionaries in your thoughts and prayers. Trust them with your family and friends. The Lord trusts them and has called them to teach and bless those who seek Him.

In his own time and in his own way, the Lord will bring about his miracles.

We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith.

As we are spiritually awake and alert we see His hand across the world and we see His hand in our own personal lives.