 Hey everyone, I'm Marissa and I'm here to share with you scripture that builds my faith. So I'm actually going to share a chunk of scriptures that I invite you to look up afterwards because I'm not going to read them all to you. But basically the whole chapter of Ether 12 is awesome, especially starting at verse 12. It talks about there was no miracle among any of the people throughout the Book of Mormon until after they showed their faith. And then it goes through this list of people throughout the Book of Mormon and recounts their stories and it really shows what they had to go through in their experiences. So for example, it tells us that the faith of Alma and Amulet caused the prison to tumble to the earth and that the faith of Nephi and Lehi brought upon the change of the Lamanites and they were baptized. It was the faith of Amin and you know, we all think of Amin in the arms, but it was his faith that brought such a great change among the Lamanites. And if you read this story, you know why. Yay, even all they who wrote miracles, wrote them by faith. Even those who were before Christ and those that were after. And so I just love, I love this chunk of scriptures in this chapter in general and it builds my faith because it shows me that these prophets, right, started off as ordinary people just like me. Just an ordinary Joe on the street and the Lord turned them into something much greater. But it also teaches me that miracles don't come until after the faith and rainbows don't come until after the rain. And then sometimes we have to go through trials in order to have our faith strengthened. And so if you're having a hard time, it's important to remember that there is a rainbow and that it will all be better seen. I read this chunk of scriptures when I was serving as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was having a really hard time wondering what I was doing there and why I was a missionary and what it meant to be a missionary. And to just read about all these people that not only were missionaries, but were good people, were prophets, were humans, that the Lord can turn even, you know, me into something greater than what I ever thought I could be.