Seek The Lord Often

I'm just gonna say it—I don't enjoy temple garments. They are uncomfortable, pricy, ugly, and just weird. That said, I believe. I believe God wants to protect me and give me a reminder that my Savior literally has me covered. Everywhere. All the time. Elder Holland's talk from the October 2025 General Conference hit me hard.  He said this: "Another truth that is evident here are the instruments the Creator of heaven and earth and all that in them are used to provide this miracle: spit and a handful of dirt! These very unlikely ingredients declare that God can bless us by whatever method He chooses. Like Naaman resisting the River Jordan or the children of Israel refusing to look at the serpent on the staff, how easy it is for us to dismiss the source of our redemption because the ingredients and the instruments seem embarrassingly plain."  It really made sense to me, and it's my testimony that God uses "embarrassingly plain" things to protect us a...

Some very troubling, very real, very visceral, visible, and scary attacks against Christians have happened over the past few weeks. As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints myself, seeing these attacks has been troubling. At the same time, I aim to see other people's viewpoints and seek to understand how people could get to a place of such anger and hate to carry out such murderous acts. What is it about Christians that people seem to hate. Perhaps it's the "other" things that come along with being Christian. Being different. Being bold. Standing for things that aren't popular. Standing up for heterosexual marriage. It can be complicated. I have good friends and even family members who are members of the LGBTQ+ community. They are wonderful people. In my eyes, they are even Christlike, often in more ways than I am. I can not even imagine how painful it must be for them to grapple with the fact that if they marry someone they love of t...