Trusting in the Lord Develops Other Virtues

·        To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments, and enduring to the end.  To wait upon the Lord means planting the seed of faith and nourishing it “with great diligence, and … patience."

     

      Elder Robert D. Hales - October 2011 General Conference, "Waiting Upon the Lord: Thy Will Be Done"

     https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/waiting-upon-the-lord-thy-will-be-done?lang=eng

Patience with the Lord's Timing

"The Lord’s delays often seem long; some last a lifetime. But they are always calculated to bless. They need never be times of loneliness or sorrow or impatience.  Although His time is not always our time, we can be sure that the Lord keeps His promises."

President Henry B. Eyring - October 2002 General Conference "Where Is the Pavilion"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/where-is-the-pavilion?lang=eng

Refinement Through Adversity

“I cannot promise an end to your adversity in this life. I cannot assure you that your trials will seem to you to be only for a moment. One of the characteristics of trials in life is that they seem to make clocks slow down and then appear almost to stop.  There are reasons for that. Knowing those reasons may not give much comfort, but it can give you a feeling of patience. Those reasons come from this one fact: in Their perfect love for you, Heavenly Father and the Savior want you fitted to be with Them to live in families forever. Only those washed perfectly clean through the Atonement of Jesus Christ can be there.”

President Henry B. Eyring - April 2012 General Conference "Mountains to Climb"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/mountains-to-climb?lang=eng