2020 was a walk through the refiners’ fire for me. My husband was sentenced to 4 years of prison for a crime that I had no idea had taken place. I was left a single mom of my 10-month-old baby. I was not prepared to support myself and my son without my husband. I spent 2020 wandering. Not in a mist of darkness like Lehi mentions, but in pure blackness. I could not see what my next move would be. My life crumbled, I was homeless and husbandless. I lost a lot of relationships. I felt like my life was a bucking bull and I was just hanging on for dear life. I hit rock bottom, but that is where I found God waiting and ready for me. Here is what 2020 taught me; all the things the Lord promises and has been asking us to do are 100% true. I learned to depend on The Lord for all things, instead of depending on my husband, who was no longer around. I learned that if I had been dependent on the Lord instead of my husband for all those years, my life would not have crumbled the way it did when I lost him. I clung to my covenants like a lifesaver on a sinking ship. 2020 was my test, it showed me all the places in my life that needed fortification. 2020 was the hardest and greatest year of my life. Instead of shrinking under the crushing weight that my trials placed on my shoulders, I placed them at the Savior’s feet and begged for the strength to recognize what was mine to carry. Then I begged for the strength to carry my portion of the load. I yoked myself to my Savior in 2020. While depending on my Savior for the strength to move forward, I got to know Him in a deeper way than I ever have before. I started my journey in finding joy in The Lord, because He is the only sure thing we can ever hold onto. I became the Lord’s warrior in 2020. It has been the hardest calling of my life, and one that I will spend the rest of my life fulfilling. I have become long suffering, full of joy, meek, submissive to the will of The Lord, loving, forgiving, and trusting. 2020 made me.