Trials: He Has Not Forgotten About Anyone L03

I was 10 when I started to notice adult couples that looked different from the rest, I thought they were just very good affectionate friends. I saw people that I attended church with that taught about love and acceptance be mean or rude to those who had different sexual orientation. I still did not understand what was really going on, I was confused as to why people were treated so differently based off of that one thing.

I then became a teenager and was very aware of the insults and bullying my brothers and sisters in the LGBTQI community suffered.I knew in His church we are taught to love and respect one another and be there for each other, I know that God loves each one of us with the same passion and intensity. I knew all of this but yet I did not understand why our loving Heavenly Father would instill in the hearts and souls of my brothers and sisters same sex attraction and then make it a commandment to marry someone and love someone of the opposite sex. It hurt me deeply because I know how important it is to have someone who loves and adores you, to have your best friend and soulmate by your side.

I felt like my brothers and sisters in the LGBTQI community had been forgotten by God, I felt like they deserved love and romance from the person they loved just like the rest of us but that had been deemed a sin. In all reality it made me question why God would do that, why he would deny that basic human need to my brothers and sisters. As President Nelson said "The noblest yearning of the human heart is for a marriage that will endure beyond death". Why then deny the love and happiness of a marriage to a huge part of His children?

I did a lot of studying, I prayed and fasted and I learned that our Father has not forgotten anyone. Our Father knows us better than we know ourselves. Our Father is with us in the deepest and most agonizing times when we feel we are alone and afraid. We have the choice along with everyone as stated by President Nelson  "At any hour of any day we have the privilege of choosing between right and wrong", we choose whether or not to lean into the gospel and be comforted in moments of doubt or loneliness. We choose whether to view same sex marriage as a unjust or we can choose to view it as another trial we do not understand here in this life. We may not understand all things but our Father without a doubt does. We can choose to rely on the omnipotent Father in heaven we have or to let ourselves be shaken by the changing times in the world.