Pray For Enemies

Christ has taught us to pray for our enemies. This is an exercise in, for one thing, humility. And you never know, if you keep praying for your enemies, they just might come around one day:

4 For he said: Thou art merciful, O God, for thou hast heard my prayer, even when I was in the wilderness; yea, thou wast merciful when I prayed concerning those who were mine enemies, and thou didst turn them to me (Alma 33).

God has the power to change people's hearts. He can touch the hearts of even those who hate, persecute, and slander us.  If we pray for our enemies then perhaps the Lord will comfort us in our afflictions, and perhaps He will begin working a mighty change in their hearts, and in the end, some of those who most hated us, may become our most beloved friends.