This part of another's talk. My feelings listening touched my heart: "Heaven Bound
Did you know that Mormon lived his entire life while the Nephites were wicked and the Lamanites waged war against them?!
He never experienced righteousness and peace in the land. He didn’t really have any super successful “missions” where he converted a bunch of people.
He didn’t get to perform miracles in front of a bunch of believers.
(This is all at least as far as we know, and I feel pretty fair assumptions based on his descriptions.) His world was in extreme turmoil, war, and hatred from the moment he was born until he took his dying breath.
And yet he lived a righteous life, followed the Spirit, was visited by the Savior when he was 16 years old, tried to influence his world for good, and took on a writing project that influenced millions of people for years to come His world was in extreme turmoil, war, and hatred from the moment he was born until he took his dying breath.
(Mormon continued in hope) "Yea, verily, verily I say unto you, if all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men "
Alma 48:17
I don’t know about you, but I’ve definitely had the attitude sometimes that the world needs to go back to “normal” before my real purpose can go back to normal
But Mormon never had a “normal” world And he still found a way to be one of the most righteous individuals in history and change history for the better.
President Nelson taught us recently to:
“Embrace your new normal by repenting daily.
“Seek to be increasingly pure in thought, word, and deed.
“Minister to others.
“Keep an eternal perspective.
“Magnify your callings
“And whatever your challenges, my dear brothers & sisters, live each day so that you are more prepared to meet your Maker.”
We don’t need to wait for old “normal” to do any of that
It’s all available to us right now.
And even if we never go back, even if we keep getting more chaos and hatred and even bloodshed around us-
We still have full access to God, to our Savior, to righteousness, and to fulfilling whatever our purpose might be.
