Tested as Abraham

By Brother Powell

Mountain landscape from church website: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/image/landscape-mountains-b04b6b4?lang=eng

In the April 2012 general conference, President Eyring shared a message titled Mountains to Climb.  In it, he related an experience when he heard President Spencer W. Kimball ask that God would give him a mountain to climb. President Kimball said, “There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, ‘Give me this mountain, give me these challenges.'” 
President Eyring loved President Kimball and wanted to be like him.  So one night he prayed for a test to prove his courage. He said, "Within a day or two my prayer was answered. The hardest trial of my life surprised and humbled me.  It provided me a twofold lesson. First, I had clear proof that God heard and answered my prayer of faith. But second, I began a tutorial that still goes on to learn about why I felt with such confidence that night that a great blessing could come from adversity to more than compensate for any cost."

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