Betty

This little beauty is all mine. . . until Saturday! This car simbolizes my plunge into the depths of insanity. THese last few weeks have been a whirlwind- between broken foots, tickets, moving, management issues with previous apartment, lost credit and debit cards, broken cars that like to stall in Meadow, Utah, and early morning seminary and being a mom- I thought I was losing my mind. Until yesterday, I had to drive this car around, it barely excelerates but it made me count my blessings. Everything has worked out, not the way I planned but I am alive my car is being fixed and it is all being taken care of.
Thanks to Elder Utchdorf's talk on patience, I realized that is what Heavenly Father is trying to teach me.

"Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit.

Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. It means reining in anger and holding back the unkind word. It means resisting evil, even when it appears to be making others rich.

Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and . . . faith [in] Jesus.”

Patience is a process of perfection. The Savior Himself said that in your patience you possess your souls. Or, to use another translation of the Greek text, in your patience you win mastery of your souls. Patience means to abide in faith, knowing that sometimes it is in the waiting rather than in the receiving that we grow the most. This was true in the time of the Savior. It is true in our time as well, for we are commanded in these latter days to “continue in patience until ye are perfected.”

This talk changed my perspective, so bring on the trials- I know there will be more, especially since patience is a virtue at the top of my list to learn.