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Dear Reader,  Courtesy of alphacoders.com Anger, fear, sadness and joy are the core of human emotion. You may have seen one of Disney's animated films entitled "Inside Out," which tells a unique story of how these emotions affect a young girl going experiencing a change of home, school and friends as her family moves across country. They play a pivotal role in how we act as human beings and as children of a Heavenly Father.  I recently went to an event where we participated in several activities to explore how important emotions are. One of the exercises was exploring how the core emotions are essential and helpful, but can also lead us to feel other emotions that are not essential nor helpful.  For example, fear is a core emotion because it can keep us safe from danger. Anxiety, although related to fear and similar in nature, is not the same. Anxiety weighs us down and keeps us from doing things that would be good for us or experiences that help us feel joy....

Dear Reader, Imagine driving down the freeway in fog that limits your vision to about 200 feet in front of you. Despite how many times you have flown down this part of the interstate highway, it is difficult to determine exactly where you are especially because the signs glance by right as you pass them. This was a reality for me this morning as my friends and I organized a caravan to a ward in Salt Lake City to listen to a talk given by another of our friends. The 10 of us jumped into to two cars and took off from Provo into the thickest fog I have ever seen in the valley.  Being the optimist, I found excitement in the new experience despite how potentially dangerous the journey could be. As I drove, it was kind of weird the different Gospel parallels that came to mind as we went through the hazy lack of vision. First came the comparison between the lead car and prophets. Obviously this is the Gospel according to Dale, but I imagine that the prophets often times know where...