'The Price That I Paid To See This View'

It's our testimony, as members of the Church, that God loves us.

Elder Orson F. Whitney taught that: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.  It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. … It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire.” 

I think you'll love this beautiful musical video, in which Hilary Weeks sings of taking 'the rain with the sunshine'..

The two sisters featured in the video are Stephanie Nielson and Mariama Kallon.  (Click on their names to read their stories.)  Stephanie was badly burned in a terrible accident, and Mariama lost her family in the tragic war in Sierra Leone.  Both have found the strength to be happy again.

The Monument

God, before he sent his children into the world, 

Gave each of them a carefully selected package of problems.

"These, He promised smiling, are yours alone.

"Only you have the special talents and abilities that will make these problems your servants, 

And no one else may have the blessing these problems will bring you.

"So, go down to your birth, and to your forgetting.

"Know that I love you beyond measure.

"The problems I give you are a token of my love.

"The monument you make of your life, with the help of your problems, 

Will be a token of your love for me."

Your Father

- Blaine M. Yorgason

By Sandy Munro