Teaching Patience in Adversity

One of the people I home teach requested that I teach them a lesson on patience in adversity. I love how easily we can get online and look up information. On Sunday, I got onto lds.org and searched for “Patience in adversity”. The search results were very helpful. I printed a couple talks and did some reading and marking (underlining, making some notes, and such). The media resources we have make it so easy; or so easy compared to how it would be without media. I'm very grateful for the positive ways we can use the media. :)

So why do we have adversity? Summarized, and leaving out much detail, experiencing adversity (and developing patience) is a large part of why we are here on Earth in mortal bodies; we can bring adversity on ourselves through evil choices; but even without unrighteousness, we experience much adversity, not too unlike the Savior did, from several potential sources (such as from God permitting the agency of others). 
We can obtain rest by coming close to God.

(Much greater detail can be found by going to LDS.org yourself and using the searchbox to search for patience in adversity.)