Simple Statement of Principle: Jesus Christ is a sure foundation.

Scripture: Helamen 5:12
12 And now, Lexy, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

I know this is not in the New Testament, but I had a really cool experience this week so I thought I would share it. This is going to sound really strange, but for the past month I've been dreaming non-stop of tornadoes. This has been a really trying semester for me both spiritually and academically, and I've just been feeling completely overwhelmed and completely helpless. Always in my dreams, I'm doing completely normal activities, I look out the window and I see this black whirlwinds coming toward my house. I run to the basement (strange that I have to run because we live in a basement apartment) and I try to cling to some sort of piping and I assume the position that I was taught in tornado drills in second grade in central Michigan. Anyway, I've been having these awful dreams and I had it again on Sunday night. When I woke up Monday morning, though, this scripture came into my head. I think that all of the things that I have been going through this semester have been real trials, but I also think that Satan has been working really hard on me to make me feel inadequate, to make me feel unsure, to make me miserable. And I know the solution, I've always known the solution, I just wasn't tuned in to what I needed to hear: I need to turn to my Savior, I need to build my foundation on Him—not on my schooling, not on my abilities, not in the abilities of my friends or teachers, because building my foundation in the wrong place has sent me sailing with the whirlwinds. This experience has been a really strong testimony for me of how much my Heavenly Father loves me and how the atonement of Jesus Christ is a real sacrifice and the power of the atonement can heal me.