Answers

Sometimes in life I go around feeling like I am just not getting answers to prayers. I sometimes feel like I am praying and praying and contemplating and nothing. In fact I have been feeling this way over the last couple of months with regards to our house. We feel like we have done everything we can to sell the thing and it just isn't selling (WAY too many foreclosures and short sales in the neighborhood-I think ours is the only legitimate sale). We have tried the renting thing, but apparently no one wants to rent our house either. Creed and I were feeling like we just wanted to stop making payments and to move on (we would really like to be adding money to our savings account, not taking money out!), but we felt like that might not be honest. Plus we are starting to feel like we can't afford two house payments (though the one we live in we are renting, it feels the same). So you can see our little dilemma and how we just are not sure what to do. So we have just been praying to know what to do and to have Him help us make a good and informed decision. But like I said haven't received a whole lot of answers, though we should probably make a decision and pray afterwards. Anyway, I was studying my scriptures the other night with my husband (reading the material for this last week's Sunday School lesson) and came across a scripture that was not in the lesson material and not even related to the lesson at all, but I was stopped by what it said and by what I had written next to the verse. Doctrine and Covenants 136:25, "If thou borrowest of thy neighbor (banker), thou shalt restore that which thou has borrowed; and if thou canst not repay then go straightway and tell they neighbor, lest he condemn thee." In my margins I had written, "Be Honest." After reading this I started to cry (hormones+the spirit=crybaby!) here was the answer, and it had been in my scriptures the whole time, go figure.

Then today I was studying the Book of Mormon, with some help from a book, The Book of Mormon Made Easier (which I highly recommend because of the amazing insights the author gives) and I came across this, and I am just going to paraphrase, talking about 1 Nephi chapter 3 the author said that there was a very important lesson (one that I am learning!) and that is that even though we are on the Lord's errand it doesn't mean that all obstacles are going to be removed from our path. Reason being is that our time on this Earth is to learn and to grow and if all obstacles were removed we would be deprived of much of our education. So I am writing today to tell you that the Lord does answer prayers, and that sometimes we need to go to the scriptures for those answers (I had forgotten this!). I also have a testimony that the Lord loves each and every one of us and that the trials that we go through are for our good, even though it doesn't feel like it sometimes! I am so grateful for the education that I have received thus far and am glad that the Lord lets me having these learning opportunities. I am also really grateful for the gospel and for the knowledge that it gives me. What a wonderful time to live!