Go and Do

By President Henry B. Eyring

Second Counselor in the First Presidency

Adapted from “Trust in God, Then Go and Do,” Liahona, Nov. 2010, 70–73.

When I was growing up, many people were out of work and homeless. The Relief Society president in our small branch was an older woman from Norway. She knew that God wanted her to care for those in need. So she asked her neighbors for old clothes. She washed the clothes and ironed them. Then she put them in cardboard boxes on her back porch. When someone needed clothes, her neighbors would say, “Go to the house down the street. There is a lady there who will give you what you need.”

This sister found out what God wanted her to do, and then she did it! She helped hundreds of Heavenly Father’s children who were in need.

In the Book of Mormon, Nephi teaches us to follow God’s commandments, no matter how hard they seem. He said, “I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded” (1 Nephi 3:7).

You show your trust in God when you listen to Him and then go and do whatever He asks.