Thoughts on Trust

My word for the year: TRUST. As I have been focusing on this word it is amazing how often I find it in the scriptures, in talks, and in my experiences. My understanding is increasing exponentially as I study and apply what I am learning.


Church News Editorial: Lessons in Trust. Week ending January 1, 2011.
1. Trust in God.
2. Trust in the Spirit.
3. Trust through obedience.
4. Trust in family relationships.
5. Trust in the Atonement
6. Become one in whom the Lord can trust.

“Trust the system” is counsel we hear from our mission presidency on a frequent basis.

The Lord shows his trust and love for us by the almost constant “tender mercies” we receive in helping our students in the Training Zone. I have come to expect them and my heart is filled with gratitude when that help from beyond the veil is forth coming.


Divine Signatures: The Confirming Hand of God, by Gerald N. Lund. P. 19-20
A mission president in Sao Paulo, Brazil, had every new missionary have an actual missionary experience his very first day in the mission. A seasoned missionary would take the new missionary out tracting, street contacting, or giving discussions. In one of the groups there was a missionary from the far north of Brazil who took about three days of travel by bus just to reach the mission home. The Brazilian elder was very shy and frightened. The senior companion said he would take the first door and told his companion to watch closely how it was done as the second door would be his.
When this young elder knocked on the second door, the senior companion stepped back and indicated for him to proceed. He shrank back. When the door opened, to the young elder’s utter astonishment, the person standing there was his older sister. She had run away from home three or four years earlier. The family had not heard from her since and had no idea where she was, or even if she was still alive. One can imagine the sweetness of that reunion and the tears of joy that were shed that night. “Not only was his sister one the first nonmembers he contacted in the mission field, but she became his first convert baptism as well. As you think about it, there were between thirteen and fourteen million people in Sao Paulo at that time.”


(Robert L Millet, “Trust begins with each of us”, Church News-week ending January 1, 2011, p. 5)
In OUR world, what can we do to help develop trust?
1. We can be more willing to trust others.
2. We can live in a way that makes us more trustworthy.
3. We can look for the beautiful and the praiseworthy in the world.
(We can look for and acknowledge the tender mercies in our lives)
4. We can learn to trust the Lord more.