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.

But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God.

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

Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."

Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.

Your faith will not grow by chance, but by choice.

No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.