How God has helped me overcome challenges - English Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I have been dealing with a challenge for about eight years, and at first it was very difficult for me, very challenging, and I prayed that the Lord would take this challenge away. It has not been taken away, not yet. However, I have read in the Book of Mormon about Alma and his people when they were in bondage and how their burdens were made light, and I have experienced that over the years as I have served and prayed and tried to improve and done those things that I know are necessary, like read my scriptures and go to church. My burden has become light. I am happy even though the burden is still there and my desire is still there, and I know one day that blessing will come on the Lord's time.
Video 2 Transcript
One of the main things that God has done to help me overcome my challenges is to put people into my life either for me to look up to and to rely upon or for me to serve and for me to become someone that they can turn to in their time of need. I've found a lot of strength from going out turning outwards and helping others.
Video 3 Transcript
When my little brother passed away four years ago, it was a really hard time to me and my family. So, as a member of church, I thought I would be able to overcome anything, but once I experienced that, there was no way to overcome by myself. So I asked God for help and guidance in order to get out of the feeling that I felt. And his health didn't arrive the time that I wanted, but as I kept, like, as I never gave up and like kept asking for him, asking him for help, he literally comforted me.
Video 4 Transcript
God has given me so much ability and it's really hard to describe, but it's the idea of being able to see the bigger perspective that God has given me through the scriptures and through modern day prophets that has really helped me to feel like I'm not as affected, I guess, by hardships. Not that they aren't hard or that they don't affect me, but that I'm able to step back a little bit and turn to something higher that gives me greater strength and greater ability and a bigger perspective that helps me overcome some of these smaller trials in my life knowing that everything will work out. And miracles, they really do happen just by obeying God's commandments and I think that's how he's helped me.
Video 5 Transcript
One way that God has helped me overcome a challenge is actually after the challenge that I was going through was over and I was able to reflect back on how it was a blessing and how I could learn from that challenge and how I can move forward and not Feel guilt or feel bad for the way that the challenge or trial went in my life And I know that that is a huge blessing from God because for me at least it's not natural to just look back on something Hard and realize well, like that was good for me or wow I can move forward now And so that's been a huge blessing as I've had the gospel and God in my life To be able to move forward and to move on after I experienced hard things or challenges or trials
Video 6 Transcript
I have had some challenges. I've been hospitalized. I've suffered from feelings of loneliness and just inadequacy, but through it all God has been there. He's just blessed me with people in my life that will either come and do things or they'll take care of me and they'll make me feel good. He blesses me just by doing the little things, making the little things make my day, whether it's just like seeing something that makes my day or just like a spiritual prompting or a feeling of peace. He's always there for me.
Video 7 Transcript
God is so there and he is so real. There's this one time I really needed help getting through this difficult time and I said just please help me get through this and throughout that week I look back and I realized there was something placed at the perfect time for me to to get out of my house and go do something and that that like it was so perfect and it was so what I needed that I knew that it had to have been God and that so if you pray and if you really need his help and you believe that it will come it will happen so just always pray seek and expect miracles because they happen and God is real
Video 8 Transcript
There's a lot I know he's helped me overcome, but I think he's just given me people in my life to help support me. I think that's the biggest thing for me.
Video 9 Transcript
I had a dear friend of mine pass away about eight months ago, and it was very, very hard for me. It was right close to the end of my service as a missionary, and so I've been teaching the plan of salvation for months at that point. In that minute, after I found out that my friend had passed away, I got the most neat experience of peace and of comfort that I have ever received, and I know that it was from God. I know that he was helping me to overcome that challenge, not necessarily taking it away from me. My friend had still passed away, and I couldn't see her placed here in mortality anymore, but he helped me to have the peace that I needed to get over that and to be able to continue on and continue to love and help those around me, even through something that was a tragedy for me. So I know God lives. I know he wants to help us overcome our challenges, even when it's not his will to take them away.
Video 10 Transcript
God has helped me overcome my challenges by giving me the strength and inspiration and sometimes even the motivation or kind of a nudge in a certain direction to keep going, to have the courage and to understand my identity as a child of God and the desire to press forward. There's, you know, situations where, you know, I needed to have greater patience or I needed to have greater faith. These are situations when I turn to the Lord and ask Him for in prayer for help and I found that when I am doing my best, I'm actually trying hard and praying, then I found that the Lord truly does help me.
Video 11 Transcript
In my life, I've had a lot of different kinds of challenges as I'm sure most people have. Something as meaningless as, why does this boy not like me? To something as important as, why is my child in the hospital and is she going to be okay? And God has helped me overcome all of those challenges. I have made plenty of mistakes and have regrets and God has helped me to feel okay. He's helped me to feel peace even when things don't make sense. He's helped me overcome my weaknesses and been able to forgive people and seek for forgiveness and those things have helped me overcome the challenges in my life.
Video 12 Transcript
I've had quite a few challenges in my life that were extremely difficult, whether it was health issues or living in a different country and trying to learn a language that was extremely difficult and I didn't understand. God was there with me through it all, and I know that's cheesy to say, but he truly made sure that I was never alone, whether it was family or friends or just good leadership in my life, along with the Holy Ghost, making sure I knew that I was never trying to do something on my own and that I was loved, I was cared for, and that he knew who I was as an individual and that I could go to him for help with anything.
Video 13 Transcript
How God has helped me overcome challenges. Well, He's helped me to overcome challenges by a lot of different ways. He's given me the scriptures, and those are a big source of strength for me, and I can read them, and I can be blessed by the things that I read every single time. He prompts me to do things to do better and be better. He gives me other people in my life who help me to overcome those challenges. And He does this quite a bit where He sends people, and they don't know they did something, or they don't know they said something that has helped me to overcome something in my life. That is how I know that He's helped me overcome challenges. It's just by the so many different ways that He's given me to overcome those challenges. And I'm finding new ways every day.
Video 14 Transcript
The number one thing that keeps me going through trials and challenges is honestly just understanding that everything happens for a reason. Whether I know that reason or not, I know that God has a greater plan for me and just simply simply understanding that God loves me and whatever God does for me will be what's best for me. That helps me know that whatever challenge I'm going through is ultimately for the best for me and it will improve me better than anything else. So understanding those two things and having that mindset, it makes dealing with trials easier because even though it's hard, you can have a decent attitude about it which makes pushing forward significantly easier than if you're not in a good attitude and not in a good mood.
Video 15 Transcript
I have felt so uplifted and blessed by the knowledge I have of the atonement of Jesus Christ and that because of him I can overcome any trial in my life no matter what it may be. I've been especially comforted to know that he not only like suffered for my sins and the things that I do that are wrong and the places I fall short but he also suffered for all of the pains and heartache that I go through and I know that because of him I never have to go through anything alone and I know that because of him that you don't have to go through anything alone either.
Video 16 Transcript
Yeah, so I experience anxiety. It comes at different times in different ways, but I definitely have it. A lot of people do. And I think over the past year, Heavenly Father has helped me seeing that that's okay. It's not weird or abnormal. It doesn't make it harder for me to, you know, live life and do it well. But He's put people and things in my path that have helped me to learn, overcome, adapt. And I think that's a healthy way to view our relationship with God. He's not going to like remove the trial because the trial is what helps us grow, but He's going to help us work through it and become who He wants us to be.
Video 17 Transcript
In the Bible, in the Lord's Prayer, the Savior asked, give us this day our daily bread. And for me, that principle of today just seeking my daily bread, seeking what will get me through today, has really been key to dealing with depression and anxiety. It's really easy to get overwhelmed when you're dealing with stuff like that, and you're dealing with all the things that you have to do in order to keep functioning at a normal level. But that idea of just simply trying to worry about today, getting today's daily bread, and then letting tomorrow take care of itself, has really helped me deal with the many challenges in my life.
