What I know

​A phrase I've found myself using a lot this past year is "I don't know." How am I supposed to know if I have COVID or the flu? Why do some people have COVID-like symptoms and test negative for COVID? How can one person in the family test positive for COVID and none of the others develop symptoms? Or they do develop symptoms and then test negative for COVID? How can I help my child be successful in school when he is constantly distracted with YouTube while doing online school? Is it responsible/safe to get together with my family for the holidays? For special events? If I stay home now and isolate will that protect myself and others? Does a mask really help? Are my rights being taken away? When will I get to attend the temple again? When will this pandemic end? So many questions with no definitive answers.

What I do know is that although this year has been frustrating, isolating, scary, and uncertain, I have received many gifts from God. I want to focus this December on all the gifts I've received in 2020. I want to focus on what I know. Today during my personal scripture study, I was reminded that I know I have the gift of the Holy Ghost. I was baptized when I was eight years-old and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. My father, who has the priesthood, laid his hands on my head and gave me that gift. Since then I've worked on learning how the Holy Ghost speaks to me. I have not seen my Savior, but I've often had the warm, tingly sensation from the Holy Ghost witnessing of my Savior and of other truths. I've learned that the Holy Ghost gives me promptings or ideas to act on and that when I act on that idea, the results are simple but astonishing. So this past Sunday as I pondered what I can do this Christmas season to share the gospel and light the world, I had the impression to share my gifts from 2020, the things I know.

I know that I am loved by my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ as they communicate to me through the Holy Ghost.
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https://www.comeuntochrist.org/light-the-world-2020