Light

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf once said, "It is by obedience that we gather light into our souls." The last three months have proved that to me in a beautiful way.

Reading the entire Book of Mormon in less than a fourth of the year was incredibly difficult to me for many reasons. I wanted to give up more times than I can count, not because of my lack of testimony of this glorious book, but because of the difficulty of life and most especially, the hard of the many weeks following when that challenge was given. But I didn't. And I don't say that to brag. I say that to testify that when we want to do something, God will give us strength. We only have to keep trying.

This wasn't my most spiritual experience of reading the entire Book of Mormon, but it filled my soul with light in a way I could never describe, because the Lord helped me do something I was asked to do by my prophet. And I believe to the deepest part of my soul that if our prophet asks us to do something, it is literally the Lord asking us to do it. And no matter how hard it felt or how many times I sincerely thought it wasn't going to happen, I kept trying and the Lord gave me strength beyond what I could muster during the last many weeks.

I read a book that I KNOW to be another testament of Jesus Christ, it filled my soul with glorious light and my Heavenly Father showed me once again that He loves me and will help me accomplish anything that He asks. How incredible is that sequence of events?

God is good. Always, always, always.