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Send us Fan Mail What do you do when life’s trials are trying, when life’s tests have you down, and life’s difficulties leave you feeling as if there’s no rest to be found? Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught, "You can't possibly imagine how close the Lord is to you. You can't possibly imagine what's going to come next." Trusting in God's timing and presence in your life, even when you can't see the full picture, will see you through.

Send us Fan Mail Maybe you’re a missionary who feels weary and needs to be lifted; maybe you’re the mom of a missionary and needs to be reassured; or maybe you’re an elementary school teacher who feels overwhelmed and needs to be encouraged. Whatever you do and whoever you are…there is a way back to the joy.

Send us Fan Mail Conquering our own inner critic is one of the most critical battles we face. The art of arguing our own internal dialogue for compassion over criticism, kindness over condemnation, and confidence over inadequacy will set your days, your months, and your years in a place where you can live in the uppermost reaches of the happy in your life, instead of dwelling in the down in the dump’s basement of your life.

Send us Fan Mail When the emphasis of your life is centered on a process of progress instead of a culture of performance, then the door is left wide open for lessons to be learned, challenges to be conquered, and growth and progress to be made.

Send us Fan Mail Happy is something you build, think, create, and make. Happy is something you can shape into your life, formulate through the course of your life, and something you can foster for the rest of your life. It's up to you to let the happy shine through.

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had a problem that needed solving? Here’s the bottom line. When all the parts are added up, when all that is unimportant is subtracted out, when all is multiplied into one great whole, you don’t have to do this alone. When you walk with Christ, He will walk with you every step of the way.

Send us Fan Mail President Nelson taught that one of the most important reasons for this earthly experience is to determine what you will do with life’s challenging opportunities. When you live your life with trust in God and His divine plan for you, then through a lifetime of joys, challenges, tests, failures, tears, successes, and trials, you will be able to align all your days with God’s heavenly light as you follow His plan.

Send us Fan Mail The whole of life includes the physical world we see, as well as the unseen world we don’t see. Those who limit their vision of the world to what is within their sight right now will limit their experiences in the world and miss the maximum value of their life… all because of what they cannot see yet.

Send us Fan Mail In this school we call life, there is a planned curriculum to help us learn, grow, and become more. There will be lessons of waiting, patience, and enduring. Learning how to wait well is a necessary feature of this life. President Oaks taught in last week’s BYU Devotional, “We are all a work in progress. ….Hold on to the first article of faith, even if something else is uncertain. And while you wait, wait upon the Lord, which includes trusting in His timing as well as in His promises.”

Send us Fan Mail Today, as we begin another new year, I thought we would do a ‘encore’ episode called Looking Up  that anytime during this new year, if you ever feel burdened with a load of care, you can look up. If you ever get discouraged thinking all is lost, you’ll know how to look up. And if ever life’s billows have got you tempest tossed, you'll be able to look up. Learning to look up takes practice and perseverance and maybe a reminder from this ‘encore’ podcast.

Send us Fan Mail What can we do to create the sustainable change that transformed Ebenezer from a past that was feared, a present that was unwanted, and a future that looked bleak? Along with Ebenezer, we too can come to know the Spirit of living, loving, and giving by building greater satisfaction and gratitude for the past, holding onto more joy and peace in the present, and trusting with faith and hope for the blessings of the future.

Send us Fan Mail What the world needs now is a CREW of Heavenly Father’s children who are trained, ready, and willing to lift someone who needs a friend, raise up someone who is feeling down, and connect with someone who feels they have no one to connect with.  You will need to become a 'Watchkeeper of Seafarers.'

Send us Fan Mail In this school called life, each of us will face obstacles, problems, complications, and be tested. How we see these obstacles-the very way we perceive these tests, either as barriers that will stop us or as challenging opportunities that will help us learn and grow-can make all the difference in our lives. Yes, in this life, there will be tests.

Send us Fan Mail The work of growth and change is an inherent and unavoidable part of this journey we are all on called life. Change is always happening. Change is all around us. Change is an integral part of each of our days. Since change is a necessary part of life, how we handle change will be the key to finding the happy in our lives.

Send us Fan Mail Elder Richard G. Scott said, “This life is an experience in profound trust—trust in Jesus Christ, trust in His teachings, trust in our capacity as led by the Holy Spirit to obey those teachings for happiness now and for a purposeful, supremely happy eternal existence." Sometimes the best way to learn to trust God is simply to remember to trust Him.