Today’s lesson is inspired by a personal experience. I never knew that my sister and her husband was on BYUTV. She was able to tell a little about her life and how she and her husband life took a positive turn because of a terrible truck accident.

My sister’s husband used to be a truck driver and my sister was home raising the 10 kids with her husband gone much of the time. After the terrible accident that nearly took her husband life their lives were changed.

My brother in law survived the accident and has chosen a much safer profession and was able to be home to be a father. I admire these two people very much and I enjoy their extended family.

This makes me think of how trials can help us. For the lesson select all different kinds of rocks. Granet, coal, marble, Geode, and what other kinds of rocks you have.

Present them to the family or class and discuss the virtues and maybe shortcoming of each rock. A piece of coal can be sharp and very messy but provides excellent fuel to keep warm. Geodes are ugly on the outside but very pretty in the inside. Go ahead and talk about each rock.

Life can be hard. We often just feel the sharp edges of trials and wonder what they are good for. Sometimes in our lives we may be fortunate to see how something that happened in our life that we once saw to be quite terrible but ends up making a very positive influence in our lives.

If you have some examples from personal experience or references to historical figures that display such an event, please feel free to share them.