“Our son Dan got very sick on his mission in Africa and was
taken to a medical facility with limited resources. As we read his first letter
to us after his illness, we expected that he would be discouraged, but instead
he wrote, ‘Even as I lay in the emergency room, I felt peace. I have never been
so consistently and resiliently happy in my life.’ As my wife and I read these
words, we were overcome with emotion. Consistently and resiliently happy. We
had never heard happiness described that way, but his words rang true. We knew
that the happiness he described was not simply pleasure or an elevated mood but
a peace and joy that come when we surrender ourselves to God and put our trust
in Him in all things. We too had had those times in our lives when God spoke
peace to our souls and caused us to have hope in Christ even when life was hard
and uncertain.” – Elder L. Todd Budge
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