Spiritual Hurricanes

Just yesterday my companion and I went to a meeting with many other missionaries. Our leader stood up and announced that a hurricane is heading towards our area and that we need to be prepared for when it comes. Many of the missionaries were excited; some were a little scared and nervous. Our leader told us what things we needed to go and do to be prepared for this moment when our lives and the lives of others around us would be in danger. We were given ideas and lists of what we should buy, what we should pack up, and where we should go when the storm hits. Just as we are preparing for the physical disaster that is coming, we need to prepare for the spiritual disasters that are heading our way.

President Thomas S. Monson said, “If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us." He gives ideas and questions that we can ask ourselves to know if we are prepared.

“In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?"

There are many ways for us to be prepared spiritually. We can pray daily, read the scriptures, attend church, serve others who are around us, pick weaknesses to overcome every day. Any time we feel the spirit of the Lord enter into our hearts, we can know that the Lord is pleased with us. We can know we are making the necessary steps to be spiritually prepared for anything.

Modern Day Prophets

God has always called men who he speaks through to declare his doctrine and commandments. A prophet is Gods mouthpiece. When a prophet speaks, it is literally the word of the Lord. The words and the stories I share will come from those prophets, whose only desire and concern is to help everyone around them come unto Christ.
Jeffrey R. Holland, a modern prophet of the Lord, describes these prophets as angels, or "mortal messengers with angelic messages, men and women who have all the physical and financial and family difficulties you and I have but who with faith have consecrated their lives to the callings that have come to them and the duty to preach God's word, not their own."
I testify that God has called modern day prophets for you and I today so we can know the way to return back to Heavenly Father. The purpose of my blog is to share with you the words of those angels, in hope that it will uplift and motivate you to become a stronger and more faithful child of God.
"Yea, and the voice of the Lord, by the mouth of angels, doth declare it unto all nations; yea, doth declare it, that they may have glad tidings of great joy; yea, and he doth sound these glad tidings among all his people, yeah, even to them that are scattered abroad upon the face of the earth."