Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin: conference talk summaries

Read summaries of Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin's General Conferences

addresses, as collected in the archives of the Deseret News and LDS

Church News.October 2008: Curing

adversity

Best remedy is the advice:

'Come what may, and love it'

The way we react to adversity "can be a

major factor in how happy and successful we can be," Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve said

during the Saturday afternoon session of conference.He recalled a time he

was disappointed that his football team lost a tough game. When he shared his

sadness with his mother she told him, "Come what may, and love it." Elder Wirthlin suggested

ways to cope with adversity.Learn to laugh

From his own family,

Elder Wirthlin shared

experiences where laughter was a blessing, including a time one of his daughters

was waiting for a blind date to pick her up. An older man showed up at the door

and his daughter, trying to be polite, introduced the man to her family, then

went with him to the car. Soon, she came back into the house."The man

that she thought was her blind date had actually come to pick up another of our

daughters who had agreed to be a baby sitter for him and his wife," Elder Wirthlin said,

adding that the daughter joined the rest of the family in laughter rather than

feeling humiliated and embarrassed.Elder Wirthlin counseled, "The next time you're

tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead."Seek for the eternal

Elder Wirthlin quoted the

Lord's words to Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail: "My son, peace be unto thy soul;

thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; and then, if