Peace and Blessins'

I learned a great lesson this week.

When you are promised something by God, 

it WILL come to pass, no matter what any earthly person says or does.

The only thing that can get in the way of it happening is YOURSELF.

If you don't trust enough, believe enough, or have faith enough.

Two stories to illustrate this point:

1. A pioneer family, traveling across the plains. The whole handcart company is starving, freezing and dying. One of the daughters in the family freezes to death during the night. They bury her as much as they can in the frozen ground, then go on their way. 

Then the mother remembers- she was promised in a priesthood blessing that all her children would make it safely to Zion. She turns around to go back and get her daughter. 

Her husband tries to stop her, but she will not.

They reach their daughter, uncover her frozen body, and slowly warm it back up. 

She comes back to life.

What if the mom hadn't believed, and hadn't gone back?

2. Another 13-year-old pioneer girl, travelling across the plains with her family. Her mother and three younger siblings die before they reach the Salt Lake Valley, and she gets frostbite in her feet.

(Mary Goble)

Once there, Brigham Young comes to see her, and promises her that she will never have to amputate more than her toes. 

The doctor comes to see her, and promises her that her legs will rot if she doesn't.

She doesn't listen to him.

After months of pain, and reprimanding from the doctor, she still refuses to amputate her legs.

Then, a lady shows up and says she is there to help her. She puts a poultice on her legs every day for a few months, and her legs are healed.

What if she had listened to the doctor, and let him amputate her legs?

First and foremost, I will believe in my God, because he knows what's up.

I know if I do, I will experience more peace and blessins' than I could ever imagine!