"Well, one minute I am teaching a lesson in a mansion, and the next, sitting on the couch in a poor apartment with a family who has moved 28 times and are eating dinner on the floor in front of me. They gave me and my companion the couch to sit on for dinner. Their feet are black from the dirty floor they walk on. Yet, in their state, they are happy. They children are smiling with smudges on their faces. All 6 children and the single mother enjoying the company. You know why they are still happy and why I can see the Light of Christ in the Mother's Eyes? It’s because she is faithful. It’s the only way she could be happy. When all else is at unrest, she goes to church and prays, and has family home evening with her children, home schools them, takes them to church, opens her home as shelter for her neighbor children, and delights in her Savior. She does the best she can. What else could seem bright and cheery, when you sit on the once white, but black floor, with a single light in the room, and dirty chairs but no table? Being thankful for what you have. As it says in 2nephi 31:20 "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the words of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life."

As President Thomas S. Monson says "Pray for your abilities to match the challenge. Not for the challenges to be easier and you then will be the miracle."

Be grateful for what you have. We are all enduring. But if we stay on the "straight and narrow" the ending will be worth it!!!"