Zion's Camp



Why did the Lord call the Zion's Camp?  Wasn't it a failure? Well, No. But that's not my point here. Why would the Lord do this? Why would the Lord send these people to sacrifice and suffer, just to fail? 

What can I learn from this? 

I ask myself this all the time, when I feel impressed with something and then it falls through. Or doesn't happen has I pictured it to happen.

One of these things is that I felt so impressed that I needed to go to Idaho Falls.  I planned to go on a mission there. I spent time in Idaho Falls, thinking, pondering, visiting the mission and temple and visitor's center.  I felt so good about it.  I planned to submit mission papers to go there Sept 2025.

And it fell apart! I started to not feel so great about it.  There weren't any missionary opportunities there. Ian and Savannah announce a new baby! September 2025. And  I felt I needed to be home for this. and other things started to happen. So what to do, delay my mission? Til when?  I was still feeling such an desire and urgency to go. 

Then one day, sitting in my car, crying about what to do. Feeling so lost and confused, I felt the Spirit say to me "SMILE, LUANN.  YOUR FUTURE IS IN MY HANDS AND IT IS A WONDERFUL FUTURE."

Now I am in this mission, the secretary of the Utah Salt Lake City Mission.  It all happened so fast and so perfectly, even though there was  that time I felt so lost and confused.  It has been the perfect solution for me.  Were all of the the impressions and work I did prior not matter? Or did they make a way for what has happened? Did it all work out as it should?  I wonder and I am so happy how it all worked out. 

It does give me pause to think.  

Some of the other things I learn in Zion's Camp. 

The men saw the nature and disposition of Joseph Smith.  A really good thing.

It affected the future of the church.

It showed Joseph Smith the future leaders of the Church.

It's in the tribulation and the journey that we grow.

It may not be the outcome you thought but it is still a successful outcome. 

We will all have things that do not turn out like we want. 

Instead of going to the negative, look at it from a different angle. 

Think, what can I learn, how can I grow?


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