One blessing because of Joseph Smith

My best friend Courtney taught an awesome lesson in Relief Society today. She spoke of Joseph Smith.

One of the hardest concepts for me to grasp was that we have a living prophet here on earth. Someone who receives commandments, prophecies and revelations from God. But why not? The bible clearly states that there were prophets on the earth during that time, why would he ever think to leave us alone now.

I am grateful for Joseph Smith. I know in my heart that everything he did was inspired of our Heavenly Father. What really hit me during her lesson was something that I have slightly struggled with the past couple of weeks. Getting to church.

Now I am going to connect the dots in my mind to both of those things.

This church is AMAZING. The way that it is set up and organized, there is nothing else like it in the world. There are so many things accessible to us because of the restoration of the gospel and guidance from our latter day prophets. I know without Josephs Smith sincere prayer, we all still would be lost people. We have so many resources readily available to us to help us stay on the righteous path back to our Heavenly Father. Every ward, every activity within it, every devotional, fireside, general conference, FHE, etc is there for our benefit.

That is just a fraction of blessings that have come from Joseph Smiths example and sacrifices. Every prophet after that has contributed to the inspired building of this organization. It is so easy to take for granted, but I am grateful for all of it. Without it, I know I would be lost. It would be so easy to forget what is important. It makes it a little bit easier to strive not to be of the world.