"Daily, constantly, we choose our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable. One of the trails of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessings for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness. That it will come is certain, but ofttimes there is a waiting period that occurs.... During this testing time the righteous must continue to love God, trust in His promises, be patient, and be assured." President Ezra Taft Benson