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The Refiners Fire Mormon Message The refiners fire mormon message Continue How to believe the Lord through our trialsIn all of us wants to be some wonderful creation. We want to be sculpted and molded into something worthy and wonderful. The scriptures refer to the fire of the refinery (Malachi 3:2) and the test of faith by fire, which can help us become this way: It is a test of your faith, being much more precious than the gold that perishes, although it will be judged with fire, can be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ: Who has not seen, you love; in which though now you see it is gone, but believe you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Getting the end of your faith, even saving your souls (1 Peter 1:7-9). If we were a piece of metal, we would have some impurities naturally inside of us. If the creator wants to work with a clean piece of metal, he would have to expose it to a strong heat and pressure to burn the impurities and leave the refined metal behind to form this metal into something remarkable. Kim Martin was a piece of metal. Her first child was diagnosed with a tumor. Cancer was found in her daughter. Her second son and husband died within a few months of each other. In between all the fire tests, all hammer slamming, Kim began to think she wasn't strong enough. But then she noticed what the Lord was doing -- He was creating something more beautiful out of her life than she could create on her own. He used this heat and hammer to make a loving, compassionate, helpful, sensitive servant on his behalf to do his work as few others could. Many of us felt the heat of fire and the crushing blow of a sculptural hammer. We often know: Why me? We want to be free from the fire of the refinery. We can't think of it as something good. What good can come from health problems or financial problems? from the loss of a job, a loved one or a marriage? responsibilities for young children, elderly parents or ward members? from someone you know who has doubts and questions, even if it's someone you? But now our tests are visible in a new, refining light. This fire is real, as is its purpose. Elder quentin L. Cook assured us that the qualities of character and righteousness that are forged in the furnace of sorrow are perfect and purify us and prepare us for meeting God (Songs they could not sing, 2011 general conference). So what good can come for those who have felt or are now feeling the fire? The answer is profound and overwhelming. We will be exactly what He wants us to be. And we will be exactly where He wants us to be. We will be His creation, in his presence. Inspiring Messages5:02 Refinery Fire is not a convenient place to be. It includes intense heat and Hammer. But it is in the fire of the refinery we are cleaned and ready to meet The plan of my life was to have a baby every two years - I had it outlined, I would have a baby every two years. I didn't know how many there were. I wanted a big family, so we had a boy, and then two years later another boy, and at 22 months old, we found a tumor. Suddenly we were thrown into a completely different world. A world I didn't even know existed, we were thrown into the medical world, into surgery. To the hospital, to the chemo. I had a daughter right before we found his tumor -- a week before we found his tumor. He had a rare disorder, I had never heard of him. You know there was nothing else you could do. He died at home. At the same time we had another son. It all started with my daughter, she has bone cancer on her rib. My husband has thyroid cancer and then Burkitt's lymphoma. I've never seen chemotherapy that tough. Drew got bone cancer, as did his sister. It was more intense this time and then Andrea got cancer from her chemotherapy. She needed a stem cell transplant. I was diagnosed the same as my daughter. Andrea recovered very quickly. Drew continued to receive bad news and bad news and bad news. My son died three weeks before my husband. I started thinking maybe I couldn't do it. Maybe I wasn't strong enough. You know, I started to think I could fail. But the Lord didn't let me fail. And I know it's not just for me that He does it for everyone. It's not always about us. As we're not going through this because we have to change or we're not good enough - I've become someone more capable of helping others and compassion and understanding on an intimate level you know what other people are going through and I've found great joy in using things that I've learned to help other people. Especially families who have children with cancer. One of my life missions is to comfort other people who are going through cancer and that you know I know how to do it because I've been through it. It's like for me it's like Newton's law - for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. Equal and opposite. So I think the more our grief, the more opportunities we have to feel joy. I was surprised to feel great tenderness towards my Savior because he is really so sweet. It really provides what you need. Coming to this department is always a very humiliating responsibility. I seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit and pray that what I have to say will be guided by the Spirit and that it can be rooted in abundance for all of us, so that you can understand this special spirit as well. I would like to talk this morning to everyone, but especially to those who believe they have had more trials, sorrows, jabs and than they can endure, and in their adversity almost drowned in the waters of bitterness. My message is intended as a message of hope, strength and deliverance. I say i say refinery fire. A few years ago, President David O. McKay spoke from this pulpit about the experiences of some of those in Martin's handcart company. Many of these early converts emigrated from Europe and were too poor to buy bulls or horses and a wagon. They were forced by their poverty to pull handcarts containing all their belongings across the plains by their own brute force. President McKay recounts an incident that occurred a few years after the heroic outcome: The teacher, conducting the class, said that it was unwise to ever try, even allow them (Martin's company) to meet the plains in such conditions. According to one student, some harsh criticisms of the Church and its leaders were betrayed for allowing any company of converts to enter the plains without any additional supplies or protection than the caravan of handcarts allowed. The old man in the corner ... sat silently and listened as long as he could stand, then he got up and said something that no man who had heard him would ever forget. His face was white with emotion, but he spoke calmly, consciously, but with great seriousness and sincerity. Essentially, he said, I ask you to stop this criticism. You're discussing an issue you don't know anything about. Cold historical facts here mean nothing, because they do not give proper interpretation of the relevant issues. A mistake to send Handcart company so late in the season? Yes. But I was in this company and my wife was in it, and Sister Nelly Unthank whom you brought was there too. We have suffered for everything you can imagine and many have died of exposure and starvation, but have you ever heard a survivor of this company utter a word of criticism? None of these companies has ever retreated or left the Church, because each of us has come with the absolute knowledge that God lives, for we have met Him in our limbs. I pulled out my handcart when I was so weak and tired of illness and lack of food that I could barely put one foot in front of the other. I looked ahead and saw a patch of sand or a hillside and I said I could only go that far and there I had to surrender because I couldn't pull the load through it. He continues: I went for this sand, and when I got to him, the trolley started pushing me. I looked back many times to see who was pushing my trolley, but my eyes didn't see anyone. Then I knew that God's angels were there. I was sorry I decided to come on a handcart? No. Not then, not a minute of my life since then. The price we paid to meet God was a privilege to pay, and I am grateful that I was privileged to come to Martin's company of the Handcart. (Relief Society, January 1948, p. 8.) That's when the great truth. In the agony, and the heroic efforts of life, we pass through the fire of the refinery, and and minor and unimportant in our lives can melt away like slags and make our faith bright, untouched and strong.
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