Come What May and Love It

I brought a total of seven shirts to Jerusalem.  Big mistake.  I have to do laundry every week.  A couple of days before we left for Jordan, I headed down to the laundry room, separated my whites and threw every thing else in the washer, turned on the water and headed back to my room.  Half an hour later, I reluctantly made the trek back down to that long halfway to switch my clothes to the dryer.  I opened up the washer and found of load of pink clothes.  Like pink, pink clothes.  I had forgotten to wash my new Coca-Cola shirt that I bought in the Old City separately from everything else.  You can imagine my reaction; all of my seven shirts--the ONLY shirts I had to wear--were now all pink.  I know this is a funny story, but I definitely learned an importnat lesson out of it:
Come what may, and love it.


Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin gave a Conference Talk about this a couple of years ago and he suggested four things we can do to better a hard situation.
1. Learn to laugh
2. Seek for the Eternal
3. Understand the Principle of Compensation
4. Trust in the Lord

Ultimately, this is the advice Elder Wirthlin gives:
"Put your trust in the Lord, and do your best, and leave the rest to Him."


If you want to watch the Mormon Message about this talk, click here.