Elder Bednar

Today we had the amazing experience of listening to an apostle of the Lord speak.  David A. Bednar came and spoke here in Ann Arbor.  What an inspired meeting it was.  He taught about the enabling or strengthening power of the atonement which in the scriptures is referred to as grace.  We sang How Firm a Foundation with emphasis placed on this power of the atonement.  This power enables us to do more than we can do by ourselves.  Our capacity is strengthened and our mind enlightened through this power.   He left us with 2 messages. 1. you can do it.  Pray for this strength and press forward and be grateful for a God who asks us to do hard things.
2. Men you can and must be better.  He told a story that he learned in Africa as he listened to this humble women teach about fasting.  Her definition wasn't to just go hungry for a purpose but to put off two meals that when you can eat you choose not to for the lord.  which for this people meant going two days because they ate 1 meal a day if that.  It is choosing the lord when it isn't easy.  Not just obeying but truly sacrificing.

This was powerful meeting and I know that we have a living prophet and a council of twelve apostles living today.