Blythe's Best

August 15, 2007, Peru suffered a massive earthquake. Like many other Church leaders and members, Wenceslao Conde, the president of the Balconcito Branch of the Church in Chincha, immediately set about helping others whose homes were damaged. Four days after the earthquake, Elder Marcus B. Nash of the Seventy was helping to coordinate the Church’s relief efforts there and met President Conde. As they talked about what was being done to help the victims, President Conde’s wife, Pamela, approached carrying one of her small children. Elder Nash asked Sister Conde how her children were. She replied that they were all safe and well. He asked about the Condes’ home. “It’s gone,” she said.

“And yet,” Elder Nash noted, “you are smiling as we talk.”

“Yes,” she said, “I am at peace. We have all we need. We have each other, we have our children, we are sealed in the temple, and we have the Lord. We can build again.”