Follow the Spirit

One of the people we are teaching shows to me such a great example of following the direction that she receives from God. She has been feeling God working on her heart for the past year or so, ever since her mother passed away. She knows that He wants her to come closer to Him and develop stronger faith. After attending the Gladys Knight fireside and feeling the Spirit present there, she decided that she needed to look into the church more for herself. Ever since we have started teaching her, she has told us how she feels so much happier. She was in a deep depression before with the loss of her mother, and has felt that dark cloud dissipating as she learns more about the Book of Mormon and the gospel of Jesus Christ. She just had hip surgery and has to take a lot of pain medication which makes it hard for her to retain anything that she reads or learns right now. Though this has been frustrating to her, she still recognizes the good feelings that she has and knows that that is enough right now until she can further comprehend. When we met with her the other day, she told us of the frustration she had been experiencing with herself and how was going to cancel our appointment that day, with the medication making her so foggy. But, she went on to say that she had a feeling and a voice tell her, "No, don't do that. You let them come over and see what they have to say. Just let them come over." She decided to heed that message and discovered that as she met with us, her spirits were lifted. She recognized why God had wanted her to meet with us that day, and was grateful for His direction. I am so grateful to know that as we listen to the Spirit, it will guide us to do what is right.

"Wherefore, now after I have spoken these words, if ye cannot understand them it will be because ye ask not, neither do ye knock; wherefore, ye are not brought into the light, but must perish in the dark.

For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will enter in by the way, and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do." (2 Nephi 32:4-5).