Through adversity-trials, troubles, and distress-man can have many experiences that lead to spiritual growth and eternal progress by turning to the Lord.

God himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations, 1 Sam. 10: 19. They cried unto the Lord in their trouble, Ps. 107: 6, 13, 19, 28. Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, yet shall not thy teachers be removed, Isa. 30: 20-21. It must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things, 2 Ne. 2: 11. If they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet, D&C 29: 39. Thine adversity shall be but a small moment, D&C 121: 7-8. All these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good, D&C 122: 5-8. They taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good, Moses 6: 55.