So with that intro, you're probably wondering what this blog is about and why I'm writing it. Well to start off, I'm a member of the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; AKA a Mormon. Born and raised in the church, I grew up in Utah sur
rounded by beautiful temples, a loving ward and principles and standards that have blessed my life immensley. I'm preparing to serve a mission and I am very excited to serve!
Every April and October, the church holds a General Conference. In these conferences, the prophet/president of the church and other leaders of the church give talks. For me, the saturday and sunday of conference are wonderful days filled with beautiful music, good food, family sports games at the park and a spirit of peace and love. Well during this past conference, a talk was given about sharing the gospel online. This gave me the idea to start a blog about how the gospel of Jesus Christ blesses my daily life. So this blog is me putting that idea into action.
So experience number one: Yesterday my faith was strengthened a lot. Yesterday night I went to bed with three more pages of a sociology essay, and a multicultural education poster that were due monday morning. Since Sunday is the sabbath, I choose not to do homework on Sundays. So because of severe procrastination, my only option was to start at midnight sunday night/monday morning and work as fast as I could to try and get it all done; plus squeezeing in a couple hours of sleep. At 2 am I was finished.... or so I thought. In the process of transferring my files from my computer to my flash drive, I accidentally deleted all of the work I had completed on the essay. The essay itself wasn't deleted; just all of the revision and additional information. I was in for another hour and a half. Gritting my teeth I finished the essay for the second time at 3 am. This wouldn't have been a big deal if I hadn't had to wake up at 5 am for an 8 am class that morning.
Two hours of sleep later, I was up reading scriptures and getting ready for the day. I ran to walmart,bought poster supplies and spent another hour making the poster and doing a last revision of the essay. At 8:30 am, the tasks were completed.
However, before starting the long night of work, I prayed that Heavenly Father would help me to have the energy and stamina to stay up through the night and be productive during the school day. The miracle happened when I woke up at 5 am monday morning. Usually when I wake up that early I get nauseous and it's hard for me to concentrate throughout the day. But that whole day I had energy, an alert mind, and I was able to complete all the tasks I had that day. I had energy that I knew didn't come from my body or my mind. The Lord was giving me energy and strength to help me get everything done. Now I'm a firm believer that our attitude can impact our energy. I always try to stay positive and I have an energetic personality so those factors probably played a part. But throughout the day I was so grateful to my Heavenly Father that he was helping me.
My point with this post is that the Lord does hear our prayers. At times, if it his will, when we pray for the things we want he will give it to us. I've also learned that if we don't get what we want, either it's because the Lord has something better in store, or there is a lesson for us to learn while we go without that specific desire. It couldn've been that he didn't give me the energy I needed and I would have gone through a trial learning the effects of procrastination instead. I don't have all the answers. But I do know that the Lord hears and answers our prayers.
I will try and update this blog regularly. Comments, suggestions, insights, inspirations, etc... are welcomed.
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