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Paisley: Hi everybody, it's me
again, as Paisley imperfect, and

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I'm here with another little bit
about being still or finding

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stillness. Today, we're going to
focus on a article from the

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February 2023 Liahona. Magazine.
It's titled Peace be still

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calming our storms. And it's
actually written by Stephen, I'm

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probably gonna butcher this name
too. Steven Turcotte.

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Turcot T E.

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And he was at the time, to be
completely honest, I did not go

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look him up and see if he still
is. But he was on the physics

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faculty at BYU Idaho.

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You have probably already seen
this article, but I had not I

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missed it. And I love it. And
it's perfect for what we're

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talking about right now. So one
of the things that I really like

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about it is that as a physicist,
he takes the opportunity to

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explain sort of how, how Jesus
performed a couple of miracles.

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We're gonna dive in some more of
that here in just a minute. But

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first, I wanted to just read
that part at the top, you know,

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they always have the title. And
then there's just a little blurb

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underneath to kind of give it
like a one sentence description

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of what the article is about.
And this one said, The Lord's

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miracles showed that sometimes
he calms the storm. And

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sometimes he calms the sailor.

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And that actually hit me really
hard, especially after what we

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talked about earlier this week,
it made me wonder, Is God

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calming the storm around me? Or
is he called me me?

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And I think for me, at least, I
think this week, it was a little

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bit of both. But

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let's take a look at the
miracles that he that he brings

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up in this article about whether
God is calling us as the sailor

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or whether he's calling the
storm around us. Let's look at

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those miracles. There's one for
each scenario. So the first one

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is when Jesus and his apostles
were on a boat. They were headed

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across the Sea of Galilee. Jesus
was sleeping, but the apostles

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were awake, and they were in the
middle of this great big storm,

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right? They were awake, they
were afraid and they were sure

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they were going to die. They
waited until they couldn't take

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it anymore. And then they woke
Jesus up, as Brother Tercotte

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says, In desperation with their
anguish words, Master carest,

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though not that we perish. And
so what did Jesus do? He got up,

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he rebuked the wind, quote, he
rebuked the wind and said unto

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the sea, Peace be still
everything calmed down. And then

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after everything calmed down, he
looked at his apostles, and he

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said unto them, Why are you so
sick? Why are ye so fearful? How

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is it that you have no faith?

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You can find all of that in Mark
chapter four, by the way.

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So the sea is in turmoil, Jesus
is sleeping.

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And the apostles are afraid for
their lives. They wake him up,

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likely just completely baffled
as to how he could possibly

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sleep through something like
that. And he calms the storm

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around them.

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Brothers Tercotte explains how
the weather works in that area,

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which I'm not particularly
qualified to get into. In short,

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the Sea of Galilee is
comparatively shallow, and is

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surrounded by hills, some of
them are really high, he

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mentioned that one of them is
about 2000 feet high. Is that a

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hill or a mountain? See, I'm not
qualified necessarily to talk

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about how the weather works. But
because of how shallow the sea

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is, the air on the surface gets
warm during the day. And then

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that warm air in the evening
that warm air starts to rise and

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go up those hills. But at the
top of the hills is the cold

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air. And when warm air and cold
air interact

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things get a little crazy,
right.

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And in that area, in particular,
it causes high winds, which on a

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shallow sea, cause causes large
waves. So you get warm air, cold

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air, high winds and giant waves.
And Jesus gets up and you just

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calms it right down. And brother
Turcotte kind of goes into how

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right now, as humans, we have
not figured out how to control

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the weather. There has been some
cloud seeding that's helped

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change things. And he talks a
little bit about that you should

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go read it. It's very
interesting.

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But as humans, we are not
capable of changing the weather

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or controlling the weather. It
shows Jesus's true understanding

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of the elements and how to
control the elements. But how

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does that apply to us mice?

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dorm this last in May, my storm
was not honestly. In fact, I get

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seasick standing on a pier. So
you're not going to find me on a

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boat in the middle of any sea
anywhere?

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Asleep for sure.

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And so how does it apply to me?
How does Jesus getting up and

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calming the storm apply to me.
And brother Turcotte points out

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that quote, the Savior was
teaching about the saving and

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protecting power he has. The
winds of evil can cause all

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sorts of tumultuous waves in our
lives. As we look to the Savior,

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we can be protected from evil
and its effects, we can be saved

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from spiritual destruction and
quote, so he uses that miracle

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as an example, to show us that

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it's Jesus has the power, to
calm and to protect, to save,

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calm, protect us, us, excuse me,
he can command the elements, and

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he can help calm our spiritual
seas. So now, as He also points

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out, sometimes these storms will
be calmed right away. Other

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times, we're gonna have to wait
and we're gonna have to endure

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them for a bit. But here's the
kicker, quote, he says, Remember

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that similar winds can cause
greater waves on shallow water

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compared with deep water. As we
deepen our faith in the Savior,

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we will find that we are less
affected by spiritual winds and

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waves than would have once
threatened to overwhelm us.

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So as our faith becomes deeper,
as our sea of faith becomes

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deeper,

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which just brought into my mind
how Jesus says that He is living

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water, right. So as our faith in
the Savior deepens, the

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spiritual winds, this hot and
cold air, that combined together

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will have less of an effect on
our surface, and we will be able

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to be still and calm, which is
going to be a great sense of

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segue into other Bednarz talk. I
know I keep teasing that one a

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little bit, but it's coming.

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Okay, so we talked about how
Jesus got up, and you call him

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the storm. And how he can do
that for us, he can call our

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spiritual storm.

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The second miracle also happens
on the water. Again, you

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wouldn't find me out there. But
after spending a day preaching

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and feeding the people, Jesus
sends His disciples away on the

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boat, go ahead of me, I'll catch
up with you. And he takes a bit

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of time to himself to pray. He
goes up the hill and prays, he

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sends the multitude away, he
sends the disciples away. And he

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just goes to take a few minutes
to himself and pray to his

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father. So here we are at night
again, on the water, and he

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needs to catch up. So he starts
walking. He's Jesus, he starts

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walking, and he's walking on the
water out to the boat. Peter

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sees him and he wants to go to
meet it meet him. And so he

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gives it a try. He steps off the
boat and he starts walking

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towards Jesus.

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So think about yourself, before
your trial starts,

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you see the end result and you
start walking towards that end

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result, right? We want to be
like our savior, we want to walk

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to him, we want to go to him, we
see the end result and we start

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walking.

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And then

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what happens to Peter

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he gives it a try, but at some
point, his fear outweighs his

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faith and he starts to sink and
the Savior reaches out and saves

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him I've seen lots of different
artwork of the Savior reaching

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out and grabbing hold of, of
Peters arm and pulling him up.

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I've seen it depicted lots of
different ways.

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And they all

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I'm not an artist, so I'm sure
that other people probably have

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their favorites. But to me, they
all make me feel the same that

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the Savior is reaching down,
reaching out reaching over he's

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reaching for me in my turbulent
seas and he wants to help me he

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wants to pull me up.

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And so brothers are caught goes
into the physics of this right

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and I'm not going to get into
that one. You can go read those

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few paragraphs on your own if
you want to. I do love this part

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though. He says quote, the
miracle of the Savior walking on

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the sea of Galilee, shows that
we still have much to learn

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about gravity and other physical
laws. But I kind of chuckled

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when I read that it was like
yeah, okay. There are a lot of

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things that we still don't know
about a lot of things. But

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here's what I want to focus on.
He says, quote, we all face the

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wind and waves of challenges in
this life. As with Peter so it

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is with us. Sometimes the storms
are not abated, and the only way

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through them and onto our
eternal destiny is to step out

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into the storm with a determined
foe

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guess on the Savior. We have to
have faith in the Savior's

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enabling power to help us
overcome our own fears and

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limitations. So again, think of
Peter, we're on the Sea of

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Galilee. Again, it's evening
slash nighttime, we've got the

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warm air and the cold air, we've
got the big waves and the strong

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winds. And Peter sees the Savior
and he just wants to go. And so

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he does, he takes that first
step. And I'm not a script

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Torian maybe it says in one of
the Gospels, how many steps he

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actually took, I don't think so.

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But he steps out onto the water
and he starts moving. And things

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get things get a little dicey,
and he starts to get scared. And

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when he starts to get scared,
that's when he starts to seek.

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And that's when the Savior
reaches, reaches out and saves

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them. The Savior wouldn't have
had the opportunity to reach out

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and save him if he hadn't
started walking. So how many

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times do we see the storm? And
we just say, Yeah, I'm not, I'm

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not going to? That's too much
for me. And how many times do we

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see the storm and say, okay, but
the Savior is there waiting for

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me. And I know I can do this
with his help. One of the things

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that he said, I want to repeat
really quick, where did it go?

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The only way through them and
onto our eternal destiny is to

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step out into the storm with a
determined focus on the Savior.

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So if you picture yourself, just
looking at the Savior, just

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looking at the end goal, and
kind of everything that's in

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everything that's in the wings,
everything that's on the edges.

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Just gets kind of pushed to the
side ignored. You put your

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blinders on, and you focus on
the Savior, and you just take

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one step after another. My
daughter's love Frozen. And so

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it's just it's the next right
thing, right, you're just going

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to take the next right step,
you're going to do the next

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right thing. So remember how I
said that may was horrible, was

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like the worst? Well, towards
the end of the month before,

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before I read this talk,
actually, I decided that instead

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of letting that gossip fester
inside of me and bring more

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people in, I was going to meet
it. And I did. I asked to meet

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with people I that I had heard
or saying some hurtful things. I

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was sick to my stomach about it.
confrontation is not my comfort

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zone. I actually know very few
people who are comfortable,

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uncomfortable confrontation. But
I really needed to get rid of

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that icky feeling. It was
starting to make me feel like I

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was thinking. And so I met it.
And it turns out, as, as is

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often the case, that it was a
misunderstanding stemming from

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miscommunication, usually is the
gossip wasn't actually gossip.

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It was concerned friends, trying
to protect their people, and

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trying to do what was best for
their people in a painful

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situation. The conversation was
not fun. It was not fun. But it

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was constructive and it was
positive. And now everyone

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involved can move on confident
that the right thing is being

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done for the right reasons. The
Lord did not calm the storm

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around me when I was sinking,
because I let my fear overwhelm

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my faith. He sent me help to
pull me back up. That help came

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in the form of a few friends.
They these friends know me and

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they know how important it is to
me that I am continuously trying

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to improve. And they told me
what I had done wrong. That is

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the mark of a true friend. By
the way. We'll get into that

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another time, I'm sure. But my
favorite people are the ones

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that I already know that they
love me and when they come to me

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and say hey, you kind of screwed
up there or you hurt my feelings

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when you said this. Or maybe you
should try to soften your

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approach next time. Those are
the friendships that I truly

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value because it's hard to have
those conversations. Anyway, I'm

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getting off on a tangent about
friends we'll come back to that

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another time. The point is the
storm didn't calm instead

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actually one of those friends
found herself right there in the

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waves with me. She was refusing
to let me give in because she

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knew that that the whole story
was out there and it was out

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there somewhere. We just needed
to go get it and she encouraged

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me to go get it. So between her
and my bees still sticky note

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that I mentioned in the last
episode, I was able to gather

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enough courage to find the
stillness, clearing the air with

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the people involved helped me
find the stillness. And you know

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heavenly father works in the
most fascinating ways. So I know

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that I said I wasn't going to
focus on Come follow me and I am

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not. But I do. I do want to
point out something that

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happened as I was getting ready
as I was researching stuff for

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being still. I was I had done my
research, I set up some amount

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of time, whatever. And I had
finished my time and now it was

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time to do come follow me before
I went to bed. And so I was

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listening to somebody read to me
from the Come follow me manual,

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just that blurb. And as I was
listening to it, I heard this it

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says, quote, sometimes we might
think that a church leader like

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Alma always knows exactly what
to do. In Mosiah 26, we read

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have a problem in the church
that Alma had never dealt with.

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What did Alma do in this
situation? What does Elmas

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experience suggest about how you
might approach difficult

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problems in your family, or your
church service? And as I heard

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that, I was like, Okay, I'm
listening. And then it says,

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what did the Lord teach Elma in
Mosiah? 26? Verses 15 through

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32. Sorry. Notice that some of
the Lord's answers were not in

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direct response to Elmas
question. What does this suggest

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about prayer and receiving
personal revelation? So a couple

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of things about that. Number
one, remember who Elmo was? Alma

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was originally one of the wicked
priests of quinoa. Wait, am I

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talking about the right, Elma?
Yes, I am talking. So this is

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Alma, the elder, and he was one
of the original wicked priests

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of quinoa. Now he's the leader
of the church. Right. And he, he

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faces this problem. And maybe
it's just because I've been

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doing so much research, and
about what it means to be still.

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But those two paragraphs, were
sending up so many green flags

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in my brain, that I stopped the
recording to go and look into

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it. So the problem that Alan was
facing was basically that some

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people were saying untrue things
they call, they say the

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Scripture says, deceiving many
with their flattering words. And

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it was causing some of the
people of the church to make bad

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choices. The people who were
saying these things weren't

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taking any responsibility. They
were just like, well, we're just

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saying the truth, right? These
people are making their own

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choices, which is true. But Alma
was like, but you have to stop

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saying those things. Because
these people are great people

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and you're causing them to be,
you're causing them to question

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and so he's like, What do I do
with this? And so he took it to

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his friends. He went, he took it
to his friend Mozilla. And

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Mozilla was like, they're not
doing anything illegal. So was

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the king, and there's really
anything I could do about it.

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And he gives them back to Alma.
And he's like, this is kind of

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on you, dude. So Alma, and I
don't mean to be a little this

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sorry, this is just that's how I
talk. And so Alma takes, it

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takes it, and he's like, I, I
don't know what to do about

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this. And so what is Alma do? He
prays? And the Lord gives him a

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beautiful answer. Most of it is
just encouraging Alma and

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telling Alma that he's doing
okay. But here's the thing. My

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answer wasn't in LM was answer.
My, my answer was in those two

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paragraphs in the book. So the
first thing that I noticed is

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that it said that Elmas heart
was troubled. My heart was also

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troubled. It says that Alma went
to a friend first he went to

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King Messiah, maybe I should
talk to a friend. So I did. And

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Elmas friend listened, just like
my friend listened. But Mosiah

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Elmas friend couldn't solve the
problem for him. And my friend

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couldn't solve the problem for
me either. She defended me and

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she tried to solve the problem
for me, but it wasn't her

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problem to solve, right. I had,
I had to do it. And then Alma

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went and asked God what to do.

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Maybe I should, maybe it's time
for me to humble myself and ask

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my heavenly father what to do.
And I think I knew what I needed

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to do. I just really didn't want
to do it. Because those

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conversations are never fun.
confrontation is horrible.

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Nobody ever wants. Nobody wants
to do that. Right? I didn't want

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to do that. But check this out.
This part is what really hit me.

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Where he said, notice that some
of the Lord's answers were not

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in direct response to Elmas
question. What does that suggest

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about prayer and receiving
personal revelation? So think

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about a time when you have
prayed about one thing but

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received revelation for
something else. Has that ever

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happened? In this case? I prayed
for something. And I kind of got

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two different answers. errs.
Sorry. They were not conflicting

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answers, I got answers for two
different things. So like Alma,

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I needed to find my stillness.
And by asking my Heavenly

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Father, I got the answer. I got
the answer that I needed, which

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was not the answer that I
wanted, which is probably why it

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took me so long to ask him the
question in the first place. But

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by asking, I got the revelation
for what I needed to do. And by

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doing and following up with that
personal revelation, following

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through, I was able to find the
stillness that I need. And I'm,

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I don't want to speak for other
people. But I'm pretty sure when

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I left there, it felt like we
were all pretty still from a

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really rocky situation that
could have turned out so much

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worse. I am grateful for the
opportunity that I have to share

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these types of things with you
my experiences, the efforts, the

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insights that I've been getting
from these, these talks and

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articles. I'm so excited to
continue this journey with you

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and I hope that you are finding
stillness this month to thank

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you for being here. Thank you
for listening, and until next

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time,