Celestial Moments and Times of Trial

Good week this week! Unfortunately, I forgot my journal again. I dont really remember much, but what I do remember, I'll write:

M* was baptized in January, n I was with Elder W* when I saw er get baptized in another ward. Her whole family got baptized that day, and she said it was the happiest day of her life, because she thought her family would be together forever. She thought it was the beginning of a better life. Little did she know the ugly turns her life would take in the coming months: her husband fell into drugs again, he left her, and then hooked up with another woman. he is currently living with the other one. he doesn't send ém money anymore. She's currently broke;, in heart, home, and in budget, but still attends church.

As fate would have it, I came back to see her and the changes she'd gone through. It's soo hard to see how once excited and motivated members and converts can just seem to break and fall apart during hard trials. It's bound to happen to all of us. All of us will look back to the happiest days in our lives and think, "what did I do? What did I do to deserve this?" or "what did I do wrong for all this to fall apart?" from there we may think that things just don't work out by nature. We may think that All is destined to end. We may begin to blame God or others for what happened. We may just grow apathetic.

How can we see this then? I think Jeffrey R Holland answers these questions very well in "Tomorrow the lord will do wonders among you". On top of his comments, I believe that these "celestial moments" that our Father in Heaven gives us are to be treasured and remembered as a promise, an eternal promise, of an eternal joy ahead. then He sends us the trials, the pushups, and lets us struggle to the last possible extremity of our capacity. Right when we can't do it anymore, He sends us another taste, a teaser, of the eternal film we'll be living with Him.

I know Heavenly Father loves us. I know He wants us to be happy. He does give us trials, but they're for our eternal welfare. Only through the Atonement of Christ can we be made perfect, and can we be grateful and JOYFUL in our darkest moments, when the sun rises on everyone else, but leaves us in the dark.