Compensation is the universal rule of life – as Ralph Waldo Emerson intuited.

When worldly fellowship is lacking, God will ensure that we do not lack for other-worldly fellowship.

-thus Bruce Charlton

I found this to be true on my mission. When I was the most alone and miserable was when the Holy Ghost was the most sweetly present. In a masterly touch, my biggest consolation came when I read about a pioneer family that was also truly isolated and suffered deeply.

“There are unseen influences around us that are trying to cause me to lose faith in God and to make me feel that there is no use to continue to pray. … You can imagine how I feel, as you know how I have tried to live, and the implicit faith I had in the gospel and the promises of God.

“However … there are other spirits or influences around us that say to me, that God is the Father”