Abraham Lincoln

Elder Cullen and I went on a romantic get a way to the Land of Lincoln. I was very impressed by the weight of negativity Lincoln was pounded with. Evil and darkness tried to crush his soul. He was accused of doing TOO MUCH and NOT ENOUGH! He was working with millions of people who insisted on slavery, despised it, felt the union should be preserved but not slavery, and the union should be preserved but include slavery, and people who felt the union wasn't work preserving. At the cost of a lot of blood and blame he perservered to push that slavery should NOT persist or be allowed in any more states and work towards elemination in all other states. Because he persevered and did not let the social media of his time make him give up, we now are still a UNION and slavery was abolished. I can only imagine how much better off we would be if he had been allowed to live and accomplish his design for our country. I am grateful for his sacrifice. The country was not ready for his efforts, hence the civil war, but we still benefit from his efforts today.