Week 39: Mosiah 5:2-5

Reading in the "How Do I Develop Christlike Attributes" section in Preach My Gospel, I read the section on hope.  It says "[Hope] is manifest in confidence, optimism, enthusiasm, and patient perseverance. It is believing and expecting that something will occur. When you have hope, you work through trials and difficulties with the confidence and assurance that all things will work together for your good."

There are many great blessings when we have hope.  I've taken it upon myself to have more hope in missionary work and in my own personal life.  I know that it is important to have hope in everything we do, because we will drive ourselves nuts if we don't.

In that same section, there is a quote written.  It reads, “Being blessed with hope, let us, as disciples, reach out to all who, for whatever reason, have ‘moved away from the hope of the gospel’  Let us reach to lift hands which hang hopelessly down.” - Elder Neal A. Maxwell

I encourage you all to pray for more hope and then spread that hope to others.  If we all do that, we will make the world a better place.

Elder Poulsen