“Trusting in the Lord,” My Plan: A Guide for the Returned Missionary and Mentor (2019)
“Trusting in the Lord,” My Plan: A Guide for the Returned Missionary and Mentor
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Trusting in the Lord
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Heavenly Father has provided His plan of happiness for you. You can fulfill your mission here on earth as you diligently seek to understand and obey His will for you and as you trust Him. The Savior has promised to help you with every needful thing in your life, including becoming spiritually and temporally self-reliant. When we are self-reliant, we are better able to serve others and know the path the Lord would have us walk.
“And why take ye thought for raiment? … Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:28, 32–33).
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Jeffrey R. Holland
“The call is to come back, to stay true, to love God, and to lend a hand. I include in that call … every returned missionary. … ‘Your Father in Heaven expects your loyalty and your love at every stage of your life.’
“To all within the sound of my voice, the voice of Christ comes ringing down through the halls of time, asking each one of us while there is time, ‘Do you love me?’ And for every one of us, I answer with my honor and my soul, ‘Yea, Lord, we do love thee.’ And having set our ‘hand to the plough’ [Luke 9:62], we will never look back until this work is finished and love of God and neighbor rules the world” (Jeffrey R. Holland, “The First Great Commandment,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2012, 85).
Discuss
How is your life’s purpose part of God’s plan of happiness?
What can you do now to be more spiritually and temporally self-reliant?
How can you demonstrate greater trust in the Lord?
Activities
Think about experiences on your mission when people demonstrated great trust and faith in God. If you kept a journal on your mission, find and read what you wrote about these experiences. Write down what each of these examples teach you about trusting God and acting in faith as they relate to a job, education, and marriage.
Review your My Plan goals, and record in your study journal what help you will need from the Lord to accomplish these goals.