"In many of the scriptures, we are told to 'endure to the end' and we will in turn receive some sort of blessing," said Delsa Moe, Director of Cultural Presentations at the Polynesian Cultural Center, at a recent devotional held on BYU–Hawaii campus on Tuesday, May 4.
Her topic, "Endure It Well" was counsel on how to remain optimistic through trials. "Whether it's fasting, a difficult class, [or] a physical or emotional tragedy,… we can and should be able to endure in such a way that we can always learn from the experience and try to remain as positive as possible through the process," said Moe.
Quoting Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Moe stated, "Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised. Without patient and meek endurance we will learn less, see less, feel less, and hear less" ("'Endure It Well'," Ensign, May 1990, 33).
"Sometimes, we might not be experiencing any tribulation but we are aware of someone who is. We can and ought to help them to 'endure it well'," said Moe.
Her prayer and hope was that as we face our own challenges of varying degrees or as we assist others with their trials that we would "remember the Lord’s counsel to us all when he said 'thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.' "
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