AND THEY KNEW IT NOT

We sometimes wonder if the Spirit is working through us (part of my battle with impatience is wanting more immediate feedback).  

Last Wednesday, during our weekly gospel study, I sat down and just talked to the soldiers about what Elder Baum and I had learned about godliness (we’ve been teaching Peter’s list of Divine Attributes).  One of the young soldiers came to me the next Sunday and said he had had a “profound spiritual experience” in our class in which he felt impressed to more fully understand and use his Priesthood.  This is a new convert who is waiting a year to marry so he can take his bride to the temple (she is in NC).  His year will be up November 13^th.   His father and grandfather are pastors who raised him to be a devout Christian.  Their only request when he joined the Church was that he remain seriously committed to the beliefs he was espousing.  We encouraged him to get his Patriarchal Blessing.  

We never know who the Spirit may be teaching, to include the mighty spirits who come to our home.  It’s sobering to consider all the mistakes we’ve made as parents, but we have hope in Christ.  We can feel Him cleansing us as His Spirit passes through to bless others.  If you can believe this, I am gaining the power to control my terrible habit of impatience toward my husband.  There have been several times where I didn’t have to control it because I didn’t even feel it under usual provocative circumstances.  Every morning I beg God that He will help me find new and lasting ways to demonstrate love, concern, help, support and kindness to my precious husband as President Hinkley has admonished us women to do.  I don’t think I have ever had a prayer answered so often and in so many ways.  

Our dear friend Martha Coe suddenly graduated from life while serving her 5^th mission with her husband, Bill.  She was one of those women of peace; full of meekness, patience, kindness, and  love.  It showed in her beautiful face and she probably never knew the profound effect for good her quiet example had on me.  I want to emulate her and graduate with honors like she did.