Patriarchal Blessings Contain Life Warnings

0:00 we have a question about patriarchal blessings one youth from Utah said I love my patriarchal blessing but I must admit there are times where the sacred document seems to cause more stress than comfort there are times where I read the council given and wonder if I'm walking up to the promises of the blessing in what way should I use or view my patriarchal blessing to make sure these feelings don't arise I've heard you on I got a patriarchal blessing when I was 11 years old and I got it from a patriarch named Gaskell Romney and he had never I don't think he'd ever seen me before I was in I was in the mission

0:45 field and so that I had to go to Utah to get a patriarch that was before they had patriarchs everywhere and and so uncle Gaskell was my grandmother's brother and I went to uncle Gaskell and he put his hands on my head and began to talk about my future and began to describe it in words from the first Corinthians the 13th chapter charity you know of charity and I opened my eyes because I thought how does this old man who I've never seen before know that since I've been a little boy that scripture has every time by the way it was before the Supreme Court said you couldn't do the church

1:31 things in public schools and so we had a thing where the kids every good Bank got it a pic of Scripture so yeah 30 kids in the class so every 30 days it would come my turn I always pick the same scripture always the same theta kids as much as I know what they thought but but then and then here's this patriarch saying you'll have a family someday this is a description of what will be in that family and so I'll tell you the way to look at a patriarchal blessing my suggestion is look at me it may be kind of tough I know my wife's patriarchal blessing said be careful when you go to

2:16 university you're somebody's gonna come after your faith and you better protect yourself and you better listen to your parents they stood straight and so here's this patriarchal blessing you'd say overall that's tough you know it's it's a warning well turns out when she came back to where I was in Boston and she was there for the summer the summer that I met her there was a guy in there at Harvard who was who actually told people I'm gonna get that girl on get her faith a patriarchal blessing I would take it very very seriously but not expected to be comforting it could be a warning and I've I won't tell other

3:02 stories but I can tell others of being a bishop of a girl who had a disaster and and and she she had said that her patriarchal blessing had worn Nurik in detail of what that was going to be that and it came and so patriarchal blessing is whatever the Lord wants it to be for you but I wouldn't read it I wouldn't read it for sweetness I would read it for what does God know about my life and what can I do better and I would I would look at it that way and it's not supposed to make you feel sweet it's supposed to make you know what it is God has in store for you and it's so wonderful I am I just bury my testimony

3:48 there real Gaskell romney knew things he couldn't have known if God hadn't told him so that's my suggestion the patriarch is someone who God does does direct and you are wise to take whatever it got if it's warning to take that if it's comfort take that if this direction take that but just it's one of the by the way speaking of having a conversation with God a patriarchal blessing comes pretty close