A week of trials but of amazing faith.

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who contacted me last week during the terrorist attacks at the Brussels airport. My son, Elder Muller, is currently serving in Haarlem, Nederland. He is safe. But as many may know, four missionaries from our church have been seriously injured in the attacks. 

My heart breaks for these families. It is a relief to know that the parents are now with their children in the hospitals in Brussels, as well as family members joining the wife and senior missionary who was injured.

The Sister missionary who was injured, is a French citizen who was being dropped off at the airport by the three American missionaries. She was getting ready to fly to the US to her mission call to the Ohio Cleveland Mission. (Where we used to live!)

These three young missionaries have all been interviewed by different media outlets. It is an amazing experience to read and hear their sweet and tender testimonies after enduring such horrific violence. But the light of these missionaries shines through to the world. They have the light of Christ with them even in the depths of pain and injury.

This is a testimony to the love we can all feel from understanding Heavenly Father's plan for us. By understanding and accepting his restored gospel, we can all come to the knowledge that we have a Father in Heaven who loves each of us. As Elder Wells said, "If even I can feel God's love while I sit on the sidewalk next to a destroyed airport, then anyone can feel God's love."

I hope and pray that the world will hear and see these shining testimonies that are being shared by these amazing young missionaries, and testimony that is yet to be shared by the injured senior missionary.

I want to take this moment to share some video links to help teach just what these young men and women and senior members are dedicating their lives to for months and years at a time. This is done voluntarily. They leave family and home and put their lives on hold to serve others around the world, and to help bring them unto Christ. My hope and prayer is that more people's hearts will be soften due to this horrible tragedy. My prayer is that many of God's children will have their hearts prepared to meet and be taught by our valiant army of missionaries.

I am humbled to be a mother of one missionary in God's army that is serving the world today.


Learn about the First Vision through music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz064mMK8Yg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewcITSOD7w&list=RDbewcITSOD7w#t=46



Learn about the First Vision:

https://www.mormon.org/faq/the-first-vision





Links to articles about injured missionaries:


http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865650949/Doctors-ready-to-bring-Elder-Norby-out-of-coma-families-provide-updates-about-injured-missionaries.html


http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/25/europe/brussels-terror-attack-survivors/


http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe/belgium-brussels-attacks-witnesses/



http://www.sltrib.com/home/3705833-155/mormon-missionary-speaks-about-brussels-bombing


http://www.sltrib.com/home/3705833-155/mormon-missionary-speaks-about-brussels-bombing

I love this man, Elder Bednar. I love BYU-Idaho. I am proud that my children are attending such a blessed university. I am thrilled that my daughter has graduated from such a consecrated place. If you have any doubt of the greatness that is, and is yet to be, BYU-Idaho, please listen to this devotional address. The Apostolic warning and blessing begin around the 20 minute mark.

https://video.byui.edu/media/David+A.+and+Susan+Bednar+Devotional/0_uwqz5m5c/11602882

This is the link to his wife talk:

https://byui-media.ldscdn.org/byui_ft/devo_audio/27_01_2016_Devo.mp3

This is a wonderful story that took place in Elder Muller's mission. It started in Antwerpen at the Centraal Train Station on transfer days. It is the true story of a local TV personality and his show "Ja Jan!" (Yes, Jan!)





http://www.ldsliving.com/TV-Host-Runs-into-Missionaries-During-Only-Say-Yes-Experiment-UPDATE-2-13-15-/s/78051/?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=related

I love President Uchtdorf!

This is pure awesomeness!!  Harrison Ford is flanked by two amazing LDS pilots! President Uchtdorf, of the First Presidency, and the Candy Bomber! Read the story in the link provided below!
(Harrison Ford doesn't even know how cool it is that HE is surrounded by THESE men!!)







https://www.facebook.com/lds.dieter.f.uchtdorf/photos/a.120510344786318.1073741829.114461198724566/343054325865251/?type=3&theater

The title of this article alone should make you want to read it!!

http://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/christianity/this-is-why-you-should-actually-be-nice-to-mormon-missionaries

To my friends and family not of my faith, please take two minutes to watch this video. It explains what my son, Elder Muller, along with more than 88,000 young men and woman from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are doing around the world at this very moment. They have sacrificed 18 months for Sisters, to 24 months for Elders, of their young lives to bring the world the truth of Jesus Christ and his restored gospel. The majority of them have worked to save the nearly $10,000 it costs to pay for their missions. They have put their educations on hold, they have put being young 18, 19, 20 & 21 your old carefree kids on hold, they have left their families to go to places far away, to work from 6.30 AM to 10.30 PM, to love and serve people they do not know, to love and serve people whom may not even want them near. They encounter ridicule and and negativity on a daily basis. Having doors closed/slammed in their faces, being laughed at and told "No" over and over. It is not an easy thing to do. They miss their families, their families miss them. But these young men and women will change lives, and their lives will be changed forever. Be kind to them when you see them. Somewhere there is a mother missing her child! Today, please be that one person who will be kind to my child!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnpHLS81lY&feature=player_embedded

http://www.ldsliving.com/President-James-E-Faust-Quoted-on-Criminal-Minds-Other-Surprising-People-Who-ve-Quoted-Prophets/s/81172


This such a wonderful tribute to the amazing leaders we have in our church world wide!