Hang In There . . . Good Things Will Come

I really appreciated the things I learned this week from the various videos and talks.

Some of what resonated with me from Jeffrey R Holland’s and Patricia Holland’s talk/video that they did together entitled “However Long and the Hard the Road” are:

Patricia Holland

    • Keep a sense of energy

    • Retain your goals

    • Put your energies into becoming

    • Don’t spend your time “walking on your lower lip” about what is not happening

    • Be excited about your chance to grow and develop and become

Sister Holland talked about Marilyn Funt’s book and the question “Are you anybody?” Funt said that she used to think that being somebody meant public recognition of your efforts but realized that being in control of her life allows her to answer “YES” to the question. I love this because when I am in control of myself, my finances, and my nutrition everything goes better and I feel more confident in myself.

I loved Sister Holland’s reminder that the only limitations you have are the ones you put on yourself. I have always told my children this but it is harder for me to remember this for myself and apply it. I loved the advice that we need to learn through our heart not just our head. She also reminds us to be all that you can be!!! If you are prepared and have oil in your lamp, you will find that you get to use it often. If you have cared enough to prepare, your light will attract many who will seek and cherish your companionship. Sister Holland was talking about dating and marriage, but I try to apply these principles in every area of my life. I want to be the kind of person that people want to be around because of the way they feel when they are with me.

Jeffrey R. Holland

    • Nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience

    • Stay in the harness and keep pulling . . . especially when things get hard

    • Where there is no vision, people perish

    • Hang in and hang on

    • Have dreams and vision – even if you have a glimpse of what victory will be like, it will help you keep going

    • Almost every worthwhile endeavor requires determination

    • You must not give half-hearted compliance to your marriage

    • Persevere no matter how hard it is

I loved the quote by Robert Browning that Elder Holland mentioned, “ . . . the best is always yet to be.” Sometimes I want life, marriage, family, work, etc. to be easy and it just isn’t always like that. I loved Elder Holland’s reminder that nothing very valuable can come without significant sacrifice, effort, and patience. Most of the time in my life, it is the patience part that I struggle with and that is the area I am working on the most.

Acton Hero David Carrington

He mentions how tragedy caused/forced him to step back and reassess things, look at his balance. When I have gone through challenges in my own life, it definitely allows me to reassess where I am and where I want to be. Even though I don’t hope for challenges, I am grateful when I truly take the time to look at myself and how I can benefit from the challenge. When I allow myself to do this, I come out a better person on the other side of the challenge.

The 5 Whys

In this video, it is talked about the fact that behind every technical problem there is a human problem. I think this can be applied to pretty much every situation in life, not just business. We are all different and that can cause challenges if we are not willing to understand those differences. It was also mentioned that we should find at least one improvement and invest our time wherever the problem is. When we strive to understand each other, I think we find that we are more alike than we realized in the beginning.

Taylor Richards

I appreciated the reminders from the video “You Can Do Anything” with Taylor Richards:

    • Always keep moving forward

    • Never quit

    • Do the right things

    • Involve the Lord and He will open doors for you to do great things

    • Take advantage of opportunities

    • Don’t underestimate yourself and the Lord

    • Don’t doubt yourself and what you can do

Good Things to Come

I never get tired of this video/talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. I find myself relating to the story he tells not so much in the situation he experienced but the things I experience in my own life that sometimes cause me to feel defeated. His reminders are definitely what I needed to hear this week:

    • We all have times when we need  to know that things will get better

    • Don’t quit . . . there is help and happiness ahead

    • Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven, but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come

    • It will be alright in the end

    • Trust God and believe in good things to come

We have had a couple of suicides of young people in the last few weeks in our community. They are students who were at the school I work at just a couple of years ago. I have really thought about them as I listened to Elder Holland’s talk again. If they could have truly known that things would get better for them on this earth, they would have been able to make it through. My heart hurts when people of any age don’t remember the things that have touched me through my studies this week. I am grateful for each of these reminders for myself because none of us are exempt from the feelings of discouragement. I feel that when we know these things, our Heavenly Father is trusting and expecting us to share our knowledge with all that we come in contact with.