A few thoughts this morning. We are taught that in the proportion to which we trust in God we will be freed from our tribulations and as we refrain from passions (or bridle all our passions) we will be full of love to others. We should also avoid slothfulness (or laziness, I was reading in Spanish so I am working out the translations in my head). I was listening to a Radio West program about the book "The Mormon Jesus", which I thought was pretty good and one thing they discussed that really stuck out to me was that we believe that prophets anciently, from the time of Adam, knew of  and worshiped Jesus Christ as the foreordained savior of the world. That has stuck with me, I have grown up with that understanding and didn't realize that it was considered different. Isaiah clearly speaks of a messiah, John spoke of  the Savior in preparation of his mission of Salvation and atonement. Today I read in Alma 39:17-19 and Alma's son had the same question or concern. He might have struggled with that among the Zoramites since they believed you can't know of those things, and they denied that a christ or savior would come. He explained it plainly, isn't is as easy for the Lord to send angels today as it is to our children? I am grateful that it is terribly consistent throughout all of our history that he has revealed the grand plan of salvation to every age, that men and women stood up so that we could worship according to our own conscience.