One Evening Closer to Christ

One of our SALT classes in our ward is reading "21 Days Closer to Christ" together. I have loved reading this book. We just cover 2 chapters a month and it only takes a few minutes to read a chapter. When this class ends, I plan to reread the book as prescribed; doing a chapter a day, with its scripture reading and challenge for 21 consecutive days.
Last night Emily Freeman came and spoke to our Relief Society. What an amazing woman! I had a hard time taking notes, between the tears and just feeling so into what she was saying. She talked about how to learn to feel the Lord's hand in our lives in the midst of our trials. Then how to remember His tender mercies, so that we can share them and testify of them to our children and children's children.
A couple of scriptural insights from her that I loved were; that the Lord's promised people have always been promised a "Promised Land" and that to get to that "Promised Land" they had to pass through "a Wilderness". Then she told of the wilderness that the Jaredites had to pass; actually a year at sea and how they needed to be spiritually prepared to do it; Ether 2:25.
She told how Joshua and the Israelites had to pass a huge river before they could enter the promised land after the 40 years in the wilderness. The Lord told them to sanctify themselves and to follow the priests and they would see a miracle the next day. Then after the river stacked up and they were passing the Lord had 1 man from each of the 12 tribes get a stone from the middle of the river. They made a memorial on the other side with the stones, so that their children would know and remember what had happened. ( Joshua 4) I loved that! I hope that I can keep testifying to my children and now to my children's children of the many tender mercies the Lord has done for me. One of them was being able to listen to Emily Freeman speak!