Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.

Find someone who is having a hard time or is ill or lonely, and do something for him or her.

The Book of Mormon changes lives.

Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward

Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step-tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.

Not surprisingly, as the pioneer theme is presented, each goes back in memory to his or her own family line. There are usually examples to identify and which fit the definition of a pioneer: "one who goes before, showing others the way to follow." Some, if not all, made great sacrifices to leave behind comfort and ease and respond to that clarion call of their newly found faith.