Opposition

There's not a lot of food I don't like, one exception is a mushroom they are gray, mushy, and taste like dirt. I try to avoid them at all costs but sometimes I cannot. In some situations they are unavoidable like on pizza or something like that. Sometimes I just have to eat them.

One thing I love is a big juicy red raspberry oh man they are so good I could eat them all day everyday. I can eat them on cake, in ice cream, with a little sugar on top, you name it and I will probably eat it if there are raspberries involved.

I would not be able to enjoy raspberries if I did not know the atrocious taste of a mushroom. If I did not know the bad how could I know the good? This is exactly what it says in the scriptures (2 Nephi 2:11) there has to be opposition in all things.

Everybody is going to have good and bad days, hard times and great times. That is just how life is, the crappy times are unavoidable. Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin's mother gave him some great advice when he was a child. She taught him "Come what may and love it"

There are four things Elder Wirthlin tells us to do during the hard times to help us get through them. Learn to laugh, because when your laughing you can't be too sad. Seek for the eternal; See what you can learn from this trail for the eternities. Principle of compensation, you will be blessed If you endure it well. Last we must trust in the Lord.

There is a scripture I love in the Doctrine and Covenants Section 130 verse 2 "And that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy" All I know is that our life on earth is a time to prepare to meet God. We are blessed with families and the next life is going to be greater then we can even imagine.


Watch this short video "Come What May and Love It" a section of one of Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin's talks, it is great and encouraging. It is only 3minutes and 32 seconds. I promise it is worth your time. Plus you don’t even have to find it, I embedded it for you right below.