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Today I was studying 1 Nephi 18 with Jonathan and I was struck by Nephi’s ability to remain humble during his time of afflictions brought upon him by his brothers and wondering to myself, “when will I be like Nephi?” While pondering on these things I was reminded of some challenging events in my life […]
I’m not very good at expressing my thoughts; verbally or written. I’m just not. Some writers and speakers possess this amazing talent that allows them to take their audience to the place they need to be in order to hear the message they are giving. I am not one of them. My writing style is […]
So, we’ve prayed, read, fasted, studied, pondered and anything else we could possibly do to seek the counsel of Heavenly Father and have decided that we will be moving to Texas. We took our family down there last week and I’m really glad we did. We were able to determine what city we would live […]
President Hinkley challenged everyone in the church several years ago to pray for an missionary experience. I prayed. Nothing happened. I prayed. Nothing happened. Over two years ago I was reminded of this challenge and decided to start praying for one again. I could feel that Heavenly Father was preparing someone to be baptized and […]
God is good. I have always known this, but to know it in such a specific way is…like tasting of the fruit of the tree of life. Today I learned that when you are deeply pondering to only yourself, Heavenly Father is still listening and eager to answer the questions we don’t ask. He cares […]