Brother Caudle: Song Analysis

About a week ago Brother Caudle asked, and I use that term loosely because there really was no asking involved, me to give my Talk today on how the song that we just sang affected my life and how I am preparing to serve a mission. To be prepared for your mission you must have the simple things down. Things such as having a testimony of the church, which is the simplest thing yet also the most powerful and important. I feel this is one of the most major connections we can have to God so that when you become a missionary and begin to teach his children we can have the spirit to be with us, because even though the missionaries are the ones out there teaching they aren't teaching alone, but rather being guided by the spirit, making up for all …show more content…
This idea is well represented in the song we just sang, which is why this talk today is actually much more stressful than usually because back when i was writing it, knowing fully how great we usually sound but also how bad we sometimes sound but not knowing how we just sounded today. This hymn, personally, is one of my favorites. It speaks to me and brings the spirit so well for me every time because i do need him every hour. I am weak without him but with him I'm strong, im not perfect of course but from watching the lives of others i can see, life is a lot easier with the spirit then without it. We all know life is a form of a test, and any test is easier when you’ve someone who knows all the answers whispering in your ear if we'll only listen to him. Yeah, I know I for one am about as stubborn as it gets sometimes so I'm guilty for putting down what i want the answer to be instead of what I know the it is. But that's the beauty of having a savior. “I need thee every hour, most gracious lord” he’s there to help, he’s already taken all of our tests, he knows us and what we need help on. “Oh bless me now my savior, I come to