Adversity

"Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, 'all these things shall (be for our) experience, and ...(our) good.'"
(Elder Robert D. Hales, "Waiting upon the Lord: Thy Will Be Done", General Conference October 2011)