Winds

Family friends and the rest of the Crew. This week I wanted to share something about sailing. "A tailwind is a wind that blows in the direction of travel of an object, while a headwind blows against the direction of travel. A tailwind increases the object's speed and reduces the time required to reach its destination, while a headwind has the opposite effect." When you're sailing and there is a tailwind you can just sit back and enjoy the ride using whats called a spinnaker or a sail designed for sailing off the wind. Headwind is a little different. How can you sail into the wind? You can achieve this by doing whats called tacking. Maybe you've seen this before but rather than going straight into the wind a crew changes the direction of the sail back and forth. The boom swings over your head and the direction of the boat turns. The sail boat then zigzags towards it's destination. It takes a little bit of work. You have to rely on your equipment like ropes etc..  that are designed to make moving up wind possible. I want to compare this to life. When the wind is strong and coming right at us moving forward can seem impossible, but God gives us the instructions on how to make it. It takes some work (tacking). The work I'm talking about is prayer, reading your scriptures and making good choices. The end goal or destination is making it back to Heavenly Father. We can't control the wind but we can still progress (sail upwind) in any and all conditions. I promise all of you that if you're tacking right now having to work harder in the head wind you are becoming stronger and learning. If you feel stuck try using the equipment God has given us to progress. If your sitting back relaxing on a spinnaker make sure you're going in the right direction and if you are it means you should have the energy to get out there and help those experiencing headwind.

Peace be the Journey

Elder Christopherson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain