Hard times allow us to become the best version of ourselves!

 I have been thinking lately on the savior. He never had an easy life so if we want to become like him then how can we expect to do so? The savior was born in a barn because there wasn't room in the inn for the savior. He lived in a desert. There was little to no water and so he would have lived his life working on finding water each day. He worked with his hands each day. Heavenly father depended on him to be perfect and always do the right thing no matter how hard it was to do so. He was expected to put everyone ahead of himself. He was expected to learn everything from God to help those around him. He had to leave his professional life in order to do the will of heavenly parents. He had to teach others to lead the church when he would no longer be here to do so. He performed miracles every day of his life and yet people still hated him. He starved himself in order to teach us how to give all things to the Lord. He bled from every pore of his body in love of each one of us. He died on the cross so we could all be risen again one day. In the final hour of his life even heavenly father turned his back on him so he could finish the atonement. Yet while he was on the cross he taught us how to forgive. So the next time we want to complain about we are going through, hopefully we will remember that if the greatest man who ever lived on earth had to go through so much in order to become the savior may we remember that we will have to go through our own trails to become the best version of ourselves. It will never be easy, but we have something Christ didn't have, we will never have to face anything alone so long as we allow Christ to help us he will.