March 21 2016

This week has been a good one. I have found great strength come from remembering my past spiritual experiences. If something was learned in the past by the power of the Holy Ghost, it is true, period. I also had the opportunity to share this concept with another member and her family. She expressed also that she was having Pochyby (doubts), and that her faith was having a hard time. I remember feeling like I needed to share the same lesson with her, that President McConkie had shared with me only a week earlier. So I asked her, (in czech of course) "do you believe that God has an individual plan, just for you?" This sweet memeber thought about this for a second and then said, "right now... no" I then told her that He does, and then proceeded to draw for her, on the whiteboard, the same diagram that President McConkie had drawn for me, about Doubts, about faith, and about spiritual experiences. I then felt impressed to tell her that something that she has in her life, is rozruch, which means, Excitement, but not the happy kind, the kind that refers to like Lots of activity... in other words, there is too much going on in her life. with her young children always speaking at the top of their lungs and flying around all over the place, and noise, and just the list goes on... She had absolutely no quiet time, ever... I told her that I wanted her to go home, and take 10 minutes of her time, just 10 minutes, and be completely alone, and to have no noise, nothing... and to pray, and litterally give Everything on her Shoulders to God... because he has a plan for her, and they simply need to be open enough to follow it. While we were talking, her kids left the room for a second... and it was quiet... er... and I said, "do you feel that? Quiet?" to which she replied, "yes". She expressed that she wanted to try it, and she said that she already was begining to feel like this was the right thing to do. After they left, I realized that during the lesson, I had no even thought about what I was saying. It had just come to me. I realized that, when the Lord needs me to be able to speak Czech, I will be able to speak Czech. So they left. And then Today, while we (the sisters and Elder Pickett and I) were going to visit the tourist city of Česky Krumlov, the sisters told us that while they were visiting this member yesterday, this memeber had expressed to them their appreciation for what they had learned when I shared that lesson with them. This member had taken the challenge to go home and pray, to give herself 10 minutes, to just give everything to the lord, and to get away from all other worldly distractions. She said that it had worked for her, and hearing that was a confirmation to me, that what I had invited her to do, was directed by the spirit. Also... Yesterday, I directed Sacrament Meeting for the first time... I was a little nervous, but at the same time I was not worried about it. When the time came, we started and everything went normally (CBud normal). But Sunday School was another story...