October Presidency Message

Last month we were involved in a huge event centering on Preparedness.  It was great to come together and become reacquainted with the counsel we have received for decades regarding our temporal and spiritual preparations.  Whether we are preparing for tornados, floods, illness, unemployment, or signs of the times, OR whether we need to add to the oil in our spiritual lamps, following the counsel and advice of the prophet and apostles is crucial.  President Henry B Eyring puts it this way:  “Another fallacy is to believe that the choice to accept or not accept the counsel of prophets is no more than deciding whether to accept good advice and gain its benefits, or to stay where we are. But the choice not to take prophetic counsel changes the very ground upon which we stand.  That ground becomes more dangerous. The failure to take prophetic counsel lessens our power to take inspired counsel in the future. The best time to have decided to help Noah build the ark was the first time he asked. Each time he asked after that, each failure to respond would have lessened sensitivity to the Spirit. And so each time his request would have seemed more foolish, until the rain came. And then it was too late.”

I pray we will each ponder the things that our prophets and apostles have counseled us.   We were just blessed to hear from them again this month at General Conference.  Did you feel any naggings from the Holy Ghost to act on a particular prompting?  May we each more fully commit to listening and obeying, so that the ground we stand on is always solid and firm.

With much love,

Tracy