O Remember, Remember

We each have times in our life where we think to ourselves "God has forgetten me." or "God never answered my prayer." We look at the immediate circumstance we are in. I have these same feelings alot. I look back at my day sometimes and say what a crappy day, nothing good happened. When I reflect more carefully though I see the tender mercies of the lord, and I can see his many blessings in my life.

A big problem we all face is that we forget. We have experiences that are given to us to build our faith and we forget. We pray at times for guidance and direction and we don't recognize when God sends us the answer. Sometimes it is in a different way than we were expecting. I know that the Lord does answer each and every prayer. If we truly reflect upon it we will see the Lords influence in our lives.

I think of a story I heard a couple of months ago, it goes like this:

A man has been notified that his house is going to be flooded and he needs to get out of the house. He says no I don't have to, God is going to take care of me. Then the flood starts to rise and a sheriff comes along and tells him to get out. The man says no, God is going to save me. So, the floods continue to rise, and he climbs on top of the house. A boat comes along and he's told to climb into the boat. He says, no, no , God is going to save me. Finally, a helicopter comes along and they lower the net to rescue him. The man says, no, no, God is going to save me! Well, the man drowns and goes to heaven. When he gets to heaven he says to God, "why didn't you save me?" God says, "I sent the sheriff, I sent a boat, I sent a helicopter, what more did you want me to do?"

  I know that the Lord does answer prayers and that he does guide us in our lives.  May we all remember the blessings he has given us.

Two prayers come together

     Today we saw a miracle of the Lord which came to us because someone prayed earnestly seeking to find truth in their life.

                                           

    It all started early this morning when me and my companion, Elder Harper, said a prayer before we set out for the day. We prayed and asked our Father in Heaven to "lead us this day to someone who is being prepared to receive the Gospel."  Then we set apart for our day.  We tried to visit some people, but we had no success.  Then we decided to visit someone quite a bit away from where we were.  Usually we would have driven to save time, because we had many people to see that afternoon, but being blessed with beautiful 70 degree weather in the middle of January, we decided to walk all the way to the house and talk to people along the way.  It took us about 40 minutes to walk to the home and when we got there no one was home.  So disappointed we started the long walk back. 

                                                      

      Between walking we talked to about 15 people I'd say.  Then just within about 30 seconds from our car up pulls this lady into a driveway in front of us.  When she got out of the car we started talking to her.  We told her we were missionaries from the LDS church and had a message of peace about the Savior Jesus Christ.  We then went on to testify of the Restoration of the Gospel.  When we told her a little about our message she said "you know it is weird that you are here."  we asked "why is that?" she said, "I am a spiritual person and I have been looking for a path in life, and this morning I prayed and asked god to send me a path and help me know what to do."  I then went on to tell her about our morning prayer.  We knew then it was no coincidence that we both met this day.  She invited us to come back and share more about the message.

     I know that there is no such thing as coincidence, just moments where god remains unrevealed.  He will lead the honest seeker to truth.  I know that God answers prayers, today he answered two of them!