good letter
September 13, 2001 at 9:23 a.m.
My Uncle sent me this e.mail to confort me... I think it will help just about everybody...read on:
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Dear sweet princess,
Did you ever wonder what it was like when Pearl Harbor was bombed? It was just like this. Except that instead of getting together with neighbors to listen to a radio, we now have the velocity of communications and the ferocity of colored pictures to bring the horror to us so much quicker ... probably faster than we are able to digest the last bitter pill.
You will always remember it. And we do not yet know impact that the financial, political, and military consequences will bring.
What to do? Just do your personal best. Do something good for a child. Write your mother a letter (by hand -- not by e-mail). Write your brother an encouraging letter (again, by hand -- not by e-mail).
Just do as Jesus would do ... go about doing good.
Stay away from the T.V. ... they only make money by doing whatever they can to scare you to death ... and to keep you worried ... and to keep you watching.
Just go about doing good!
And sing ... by yourself and with friends ... Hymn #223, "My Heavenly Father Loves Me", "Give, Said the Little Stream", "Called to Serve", "Help Me, Dear Father", "The Still Small Voice", "I Feel My Savior's Love", "A Child's Prayer", "I Will Follow God's Plan", "Tell Me, Dear Lord" ... and others from the Children's Songbook (that's what I do, anyway).
GO about DOING good. (Remember 1 Nephi 3:7 ... and sing "Nephi's Courage")
Quietly remember to "rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him" (Psalms 37:7)
And check out D&C 38:28-30
And smile ... you deserve it!
Unc Hugh
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For the non- LDS people, the Doctrine and Covenants 38:28-30, which was written in 1830, reads:
And again, I say unto you that the enemy in the secret chambers seeketh your lives.
Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you sat that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land.
I tell you these things because of your prayers; wherefore, treasure up wisdom in your bosoms, lest the wickedness of men reveal these things unto you by their wickedness, in a manner which shall speak in your ears with a voice louder than that which shall shake the earth; but if ye are prepared ye shall not fear.
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