America and the Everlasting Decree of God Concerning this Land

Sheri Dew:
My dear friends, here is the sobering reality: our constitution was written for a moral people.  It will not survive a people who collectively lose their virtue.
Sheri Dew, No One Can Take Your Place

The Everlasting Decree of God Concerning this Land

Ether 2:7-12
And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop beyond the sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth even unto the land of promise, which was choice above all other lands, which the Lord God had preserved for a righteous people.
8 And he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother of Jared, that whoso should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and forever, should him, the true and only God, or they should be off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them.
9 And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is

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The Weak and Simple

I was thinking a while back about my mission and about the time I first arrived in my first area. I was so overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy that it seemed I’d never be an effective missionary. I felt like I was at the bottom of an ocean, fighting to reach the surface, while I was expected to be walking on top of it. I’d prepared myself in every way I could have thought of, and read the Book of Mormon a few times already, but my feelings of inadequacy led me to think that I knew practically nothing about the gospel. As I look back, I wonder a bit how I could have been so overwhelmed. But I most surely was overwhelmed.
The MTC was not an easy experience for me, though it was wonderfully rewarding and I learned SO much. I have thought a lot about the terrible feelings of intimidation I had felt at that time for the work, and I have since wondered why I felt that way. The more I think about it, though, the more I have come to appreciate that the Lord gave me that experience, because of the amazing lessons it taught me.
When I started my mission, I felt incredibly weak. I felt like the lowest of all the missionaries, partly because I was the newest missionary, and partly because I seemed to struggle to speak up and really talk to people. I truly was weak, and I cannot deny that.
I learned a lot while on my mission, and I like to think about it this way: Imagine before the restoration, the situation that the Lord was in. He had brought his church to the earth. Jesus Christ himself had been the restorer of it. It had previously been in a state of apostasy, because of the wickedness of the children of Israel. Now, once again, after His

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“Behold your little ones”

What would it feel like to look upon the Savior, He who gives us purpose, hope, joy, life, everything? A long time ago the Savior came to America and visited the people here. He blessed their children. He took each child one at a time and blessed them. What was that like for a child? How did it feel to be singled out by our mighty Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Oh, how He loves His little ones and how He loves each and every one of us. He worries about us, He pleads for us and He reaches out to us when we wander. Let us be like little children, meek and pure, ready to listen and ready to learn.

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