A few days ago I started writing a blog about how frustrated I am with the Government and President Obama and all the new laws and requirements that are being passed. I felt like I needed to make my voice heard because so often I feel like we only hear the garbage on TV or from the media and I wanted to share what I felt like is the truth about things right now.  But something about my blog just didn't feel right, so I didn't post it.

I've been reading in the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon and it talks about how one king succeeds another, some are righteous, some are wicked.  The story in Ether follows the trend of the Book of Mormon: when a righteous king is in power, the people prosper and are blessed, when a wicked king is in power, the people suffer and evil prevails. Even after thousands of years things haven't changed much.

Chapter 12 describes Ether's efforts to persuade the people to repent and return to believe in God, "For he did cry from the morning, even until the going down of the sun, exhorting the people to believe in God unto repentance lest they should be destroyed..." It sounded pretty hopeless, kind of like how I have been feeling about our country lately.  But, then Ether went on to say, "Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God" (Ether 12:3-4).

I am worried about the future of my country and I do want to support righteous people and fight the evil that is in the world, but maybe I wasn't going about it the right way. What I really need to do is live righteously and invite others to do so as well, just as Ether did, and in that way I can hope for a better world.