THE PROPHET COMES TO PROVO

President Monson spoke at BYU today and even though I could have walked a few blocks to be in his presence, I just watched him on the tellie.  (Now that I think about it, that's kind of weird. In the DR perspective, we would have traveled whatever it took if it meant he'd be on the island. But I guess it's a Provo thing.)

My favorite thing was actually a quote by someone else, but it seemed to be what I needed.

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."

     --ORSON F. WHITNEY