🚨 RUBIO JUST SAID THE NUMBER THEY NEVER WANTED ON TV 🚨
Americans work 40 years.
They retire.
Social Security: $800. $900. A thousand a month.
Somebody who got here from Cuba three months ago: $1,500 a month.
Marco Rubio said it out loud.
“So imagine if you’ve been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28-year-old, able-bodied person who just got here. That’s real. That happens. That’s happening every day. That makes no sense.”
You paid in.
They landed.
They beat your check.
That’s not compassion.
That’s a slap in the face with your own tax dollars.
Elder Kevin R. Duncan used a phrase that I have never forgotten. It is one that we should all remember, as trials and difficulties come into our lives. It is simple, and beautiful.
Sometimes the Savior relieves,
and sometimes He refines.
Both are gifts to us!
When Jesus Christ was in Gethsemane, during what was most likely His lowest point, an angel came to strengthen Him.
To accomplish the Father’s work, He couldn’t be relieved of the pressure, the pain. But He was strengthened in His suffering.
So it is with us. There are things we need to pass through and experience during our time here— hard things, crushing things— there is NO OTHER WAY.
As much as we would love to be relieved, the refinement becomes the greater gift.
While all too often, the thorn can’t be removed, we will NEVER be left without heavenly support during those dark and trying times!
“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” (John 14:18)
Sometimes we will be relieved.
Sometimes we will be refined.
BOTH are incredible gifts!!
Alma 37:36 Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.
"If your integrity is deep in your soul, it can override all other influences and is a key to becoming like the Savior, Jesus Christ," Elder Ronald A. Rasband taught institute students.
BREAKING: Multiple reports telling us Latter-day Saints in Nevada received a similar letter from the Area Presidency as the one saints in Idaho received, encouraging members to “voice their opposition” to adding a right to abortion to the Nevada State constitution.
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the theme for the upcoming Salt Lake Temple Celebration on the same day reservations were made available for open house tickets.
Speaking from the new temple entrance building north of the Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square, President @UchtdorfDF, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, called the celebration a historic event that will accompany the reopening of the Salt Lake Temple in 2027 following its extensive, seven-year renovation.
“We invite the world — everyone, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people,” he said. “We expect 5 million people to come and see and enjoy this wonderful experience — what the temple, the house of the Lord, represents.”
Here are Elder Uchtdorf's (@UchtdorfDF) full remarks from today's announcement event.
On the early Church settlers who traveled to Salt Lake City from Nauvoo, Elder Uchtdorf posed the question:
"Why would they arrive at a place in the desert, more or less, and again focus on the House of the Lord?"
He answered:
"Because they rejoiced in Christ and knew that Jesus Christ is the foundation in our lives."
“They’re like a beautiful little light in the dark.”
“All the stuff that I heard seems to be a huge lie.”
“…some of the nicest people I have ever met.”
Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, you and I can be cleansed of our sins and have our natures transformed.
I shared with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Korea that the Savior blesses each of us as we exercise faith in Him, repent, receive the covenants and ordinances of the gospel, and do our best to become better—with God’s help—every day.
I cannot add more time to your days or eliminate the many concerns modern life brings. But I can offer this counsel: not all matters are of equal value, and maintaining an eternal perspective, helps us prioritize the things that are of greatest value. @DaleGRenlund