Hardships

We are blessed in extra ordinary ways to learn essential lessons through affliction and hardships. (David A. Bednar)

Life is hard, it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, single, divorced or married, whether you have children or not, we all face affliction and hardships. These afflictions and hardships help us to learn life long lessons. They are meant to humble and strengthen us so we can become the person that Heavenly Father knows us to be. "No pain that we suffer, no trail that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children on God...and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire" (Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle, 98).