WEBVTT 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:07.560 Paisley: Hi everybody, Paisley imperfect here with another 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:12.570 message. Today we're talking about prayer. Somebody asked me 00:00:12.570 --> 00:00:17.970 in a quote, in a quote, in a comment last week about my 00:00:17.970 --> 00:00:23.550 thoughts about sincere prayer. So I wanted to I wanted to share 00:00:23.550 --> 00:00:24.330 my thoughts. 00:00:25.590 --> 00:00:36.630 I want to start by just kind of just saying that it works. Okay. 00:00:37.620 --> 00:00:40.680 Prayer works. We have a lot of evidence of that in the 00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:45.930 scriptures. I have a lot of evidence that of that in my 00:00:45.930 --> 00:00:51.390 life. I just, I want to, I want to say that first, I want to say 00:00:51.390 --> 00:00:52.500 that prayer works. 00:00:53.940 --> 00:00:58.890 Then I want to, I kind of want to start with a little bit of a 00:00:58.890 --> 00:01:04.680 story. In my early 20s, I'm talking like 2021, I was called 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.260 to teach this primary class, I wasn't interested in going to 00:01:07.260 --> 00:01:14.370 the ISA Ward yet. And so my bishop asked me to teach this 00:01:14.940 --> 00:01:20.550 class of nine year olds, I had one girl, that poor girl, I had 00:01:20.550 --> 00:01:28.650 one girl in this class and four Super rowdy boys. They're still 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:32.880 great. They're still great boys. They're grown men with families 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.490 of their own now, but we spent that year I had them for the 00:01:38.490 --> 00:01:41.040 whole year. And we spent that year focusing on the articles of 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.460 faith, they got a giant candy bar at the end of the year, if 00:01:44.460 --> 00:01:48.060 they memorized all their articles of faith, at least one 00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:53.040 of them did. So cute. 00:01:53.510 --> 00:01:59.000 Anyway, the other thing that we focused on was prayer. And we 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:05.060 talked about the kind of the three like the three key parts 00:02:05.090 --> 00:02:08.660 of a prayer, if you will. And I'm not talking about like, you 00:02:08.660 --> 00:02:11.540 asked for things, you say thank you for things. I'm not talking 00:02:11.540 --> 00:02:16.250 about that. I'm talking about how you know who we pray to. So 00:02:16.250 --> 00:02:20.210 I would say on Sunday, I would say Okay, guys, pop quiz. And 00:02:20.210 --> 00:02:25.520 they would all go, oh, and I would say, we pray to and then I 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.300 would look at them. And they would say Heavenly Father, and I 00:02:29.300 --> 00:02:32.960 would say in the name of and they would say Jesus Christ. And 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.690 then I would say and were answered by or were answered 00:02:35.690 --> 00:02:41.240 through and they would say the Holy Ghost. And give me kind of 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:45.890 a hard time about it. But you know, that was something like 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:48.200 even in my 20s. That was something that stuck with me 00:02:48.200 --> 00:02:54.140 later on. And then in my 30s, probably mid 30s, I was teaching 00:02:54.140 --> 00:02:57.350 seminary teaching early morning seminary, and I remember going 00:02:57.350 --> 00:03:02.210 over it with my kids, one with my seminary kids one morning and 00:03:02.690 --> 00:03:06.800 doing the same thing we pray to and they said Heavenly Father, 00:03:06.830 --> 00:03:09.710 it took us a little while to get there like it. The whole lesson 00:03:09.710 --> 00:03:14.060 was about prayer. It was just like a one day thing. But I said 00:03:14.060 --> 00:03:18.530 we pray to they said Heavenly Father and I said in the name of 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.160 and they said Jesus Christ. And I said, I were answered through 00:03:22.490 --> 00:03:26.450 and they said the Holy Ghost. And then once we got there like 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:33.080 this thought came into my brain about how important prayer is. 00:03:34.190 --> 00:03:37.760 It's so important that all three members of the Godhead are 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:42.860 somehow involved. Let that sink in for just a second. 00:03:44.210 --> 00:03:52.280 Elder Scott in 2007 gave this talk in general conference the 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:56.420 Saturday morning session in April of 2007. He gave this talk 00:03:56.420 --> 00:04:00.920 called using the supernal gift of prayer. And one of his 00:04:00.980 --> 00:04:06.170 opening paragraphs says prayer is a superb final gift of our 00:04:06.170 --> 00:04:10.610 Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it, the Absolute 00:04:10.610 --> 00:04:14.990 Supreme Being the most all knowing, all seeing all powerful 00:04:14.990 --> 00:04:20.210 personage encourages you and me as insignificant as we are to 00:04:20.210 --> 00:04:25.130 converse with him as our father, actually because he knows how 00:04:25.130 --> 00:04:29.090 desperately we need his guidance he commands, thou shalt pray 00:04:29.090 --> 00:04:33.440 vocally as well as in thy heart, yay before the world as well as 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:38.510 in secret in public as well as in private. Prayer is so 00:04:38.510 --> 00:04:41.240 important that all three members of the Godhead are somehow 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.780 involved. And Heavenly Father himself has commanded us to talk 00:04:44.780 --> 00:04:45.200 to him. 00:04:46.860 --> 00:04:49.950 So now let me ask you this If Heavenly Father has commanded us 00:04:49.950 --> 00:04:54.270 to talk to him, doesn't matter what we say. Doesn't matter how 00:04:54.270 --> 00:05:00.870 we say it. So I mentioned I can't Well, episodes ago, I 00:05:00.870 --> 00:05:04.800 think that I was asked to speak on Mother's Day, which is an 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:11.520 interesting thought, when you realize my history with 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:18.390 motherhood. And I remember during that talk, I spoke about 00:05:18.390 --> 00:05:22.620 how, throughout that experience throughout that experience of 00:05:22.620 --> 00:05:28.170 infertility and trying to have kids, I would get so mad. So 00:05:28.170 --> 00:05:34.110 hurt, I would just I felt it hurts so bad. I don't know how 00:05:34.110 --> 00:05:36.540 it's just I don't I don't know how else to describe it. I felt 00:05:36.540 --> 00:05:42.750 forgotten. I felt denied, rejected, and not just not by 00:05:42.750 --> 00:05:45.600 the world, by my heavenly Father, the person who was 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.600 supposed to love me more than anything. I just I felt 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:52.440 forgotten and abandoned. And there were a couple of times 00:05:52.440 --> 00:05:55.170 when I just got really upset. And I went into my closet or 00:05:55.170 --> 00:05:58.170 into my room, and I just yelled, just like I did when I was a 00:05:58.170 --> 00:06:03.270 teenager, and I would yell at my parents. I just I went into my 00:06:03.270 --> 00:06:10.140 closet, and I just yelled, and I just let God have it. I told him 00:06:10.140 --> 00:06:15.540 everything. I told him ever, how I felt about all of the stuff 00:06:15.570 --> 00:06:21.330 that I was having to go through how unfair I thought it was that 00:06:22.290 --> 00:06:25.530 these teenagers were pushing baby strollers on their way to 00:06:25.530 --> 00:06:29.550 high school, when I had a gospel centered home, I had a house 00:06:29.550 --> 00:06:33.930 ready to put a kid in and I didn't get one. But she did. And 00:06:33.930 --> 00:06:36.960 I would just would go into my closet and just yell at him. 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:44.040 And so I mentioned this during my mother's day talk, and my 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:48.780 brother in law. I love my brother in law, my brother in 00:06:48.780 --> 00:06:55.110 law texts me. And he was like, Dude, I don't know if yelling at 00:06:55.110 --> 00:06:58.470 God is a good idea. Personally, couldn't have done it. I 00:06:58.470 --> 00:07:01.980 couldn't. I couldn't do that. But if that's how, if that's how 00:07:01.980 --> 00:07:03.060 you roll, that's how you roll. 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.050 So I'm going to another experience. I don't remember how 00:07:10.050 --> 00:07:15.990 old I was, I don't remember. I I was not a child, I was either a 00:07:15.990 --> 00:07:20.460 teenager or a young adult. And I remember just feeling the need 00:07:20.550 --> 00:07:25.200 to pray. It was before I was yelling, yelling at God in my 00:07:25.200 --> 00:07:30.750 closet. But I remember feeling the need to pray. And so I got 00:07:30.750 --> 00:07:34.170 down on my knees one day and it was just like Heavenly Father, I 00:07:34.170 --> 00:07:37.110 have been told that I should be addressing you with thee's and 00:07:37.110 --> 00:07:39.960 thy's and thou's. And I don't know how I don't know how to use 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:47.160 that language. Also, it feels disconnected for me. So would it 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:55.110 be okay, if I just said, you and your and just kind of got to 00:07:55.110 --> 00:08:00.180 know you a little bit better first. And I can't say that the 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:03.090 feeling was like this overwhelming warmth or anything 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:11.700 like that. But it felt fine. And so I took the opportunity. And I 00:08:12.690 --> 00:08:16.320 that's how I started saying my prayers. And I just talked to my 00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:19.800 Heavenly Father as though he were a friend. as though I were 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:24.060 having a conversation with somebody who was kneeling next 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:25.890 to me or sitting next to me. 00:08:26.640 --> 00:08:30.210 In the car, sometimes I would talk out loud and I would just 00:08:30.210 --> 00:08:33.540 pretend like I had my phone hooked up to my phone or hooked 00:08:33.540 --> 00:08:38.760 up to my car, you know, and just talk out loud and just seemed 00:08:38.760 --> 00:08:42.720 like I was talking to myself but I wasn't really I was it was a 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:50.730 prayer to me. So when I say that my feelings on sincere prayer 00:08:50.730 --> 00:08:53.430 have evolved over time. It's because I have evolved over 00:08:53.430 --> 00:09:03.150 time. And so what started as you and your has since evolved into 00:09:03.150 --> 00:09:06.390 thee and thy, because my relationship with my Heavenly 00:09:06.390 --> 00:09:11.640 Father has evolved and because I have grown. now that does not 00:09:11.640 --> 00:09:15.270 mean that you need to start from thee and thy. I hope that you're 00:09:15.270 --> 00:09:18.330 actually getting the opposite from that, that you can start 00:09:18.330 --> 00:09:25.320 wherever you are and it doesn't matter. Elder Scott actually 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:30.390 says in like his fifth paragraph it says don't worry about your 00:09:30.390 --> 00:09:34.140 clumsily expressed feelings. Just talk to your compassionate 00:09:34.140 --> 00:09:38.190 understanding father, you are his precious child who he loves 00:09:38.190 --> 00:09:41.850 perfectly and wants to help. As you pray recognize that Father 00:09:41.850 --> 00:09:46.710 in heaven is near and he is listening. Don't let the 00:09:46.710 --> 00:09:53.520 language stop you from getting started. Now I will say with 00:09:53.520 --> 00:09:58.710 that in mind if you look under topics, topics and questions on 00:09:58.710 --> 00:10:00.960 the gospel library and you Go to prayer. 00:10:01.290 --> 00:10:06.570 There is a quote in there from President oaks that says because 00:10:06.570 --> 00:10:10.200 prayer is the way this is that there's a, this is a paragraph 00:10:11.100 --> 00:10:15.300 that quotes elder crow. My goodness, excuse me. This is a 00:10:15.300 --> 00:10:19.800 paragraph that quotes President oaks, who also quotes Joseph 00:10:19.800 --> 00:10:24.480 Smith. So bear with me for a second it says, because prayer 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:30.480 is the way we approach God the Father, we try try to use words 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:34.050 that demonstrate sincerity and reverence. President Dallin H 00:10:34.050 --> 00:10:38.730 oaks explained, quote, the Prophet Joseph Smith said, so 00:10:38.730 --> 00:10:42.270 here we're quoting Joseph Smith, it is a great thing to inquire 00:10:42.270 --> 00:10:46.200 at the hands of God, or to come into His presence, the special 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:50.550 language of prayer. That's the end of the quote from from 00:10:51.570 --> 00:10:55.980 Joseph Smith. But elder oaks continues, the special language 00:10:55.980 --> 00:10:58.800 of prayer reminds us of the greatness of that privilege. 00:10:59.550 --> 00:11:02.580 With the sacredness of prayer in mind, we should use pronouns of 00:11:02.580 --> 00:11:06.750 the scriptures when we address God, the thou thy and zine, 00:11:07.050 --> 00:11:11.070 rather than the more common pronouns you your and yours as 00:11:11.070 --> 00:11:14.070 appropriate. Okay, two things. 00:11:14.250 --> 00:11:17.040 Try as appropriate. 00:11:17.640 --> 00:11:22.440 If you don't know how to use thee, thy, thous and thine, 00:11:23.940 --> 00:11:29.040 that's fine. I am a firm believer that Heavenly Father 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:33.270 would rather hear from you no matter how you address him, then 00:11:33.270 --> 00:11:38.880 not hear from you at all. That is my own personal opinion. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:45.990 However, I will also say again, don't worry about your clumsily 00:11:45.990 --> 00:11:49.830 expressed feelings. Just talk to your compassionate understanding 00:11:49.830 --> 00:11:50.400 father. 00:11:52.670 --> 00:11:59.240 Okay. Alma 37. Alma chapter 37 says, counsel with the Lord and 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:03.530 all thy doings, and He will direct the for good counsel with 00:12:03.530 --> 00:12:06.260 the Lord in all thy doings to counsel with someone needs to 00:12:06.260 --> 00:12:09.620 have a conversation with them. It's a little bit more difficult 00:12:09.620 --> 00:12:12.380 to have a conversation with our Heavenly Father, when he's not 00:12:12.380 --> 00:12:16.790 sitting there responding directly to everything that 00:12:16.790 --> 00:12:21.050 comes out of our mouths, right? So how do we counsel with God? 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.870 Let's finish the verse council with the Lord and all thy doings 00:12:26.870 --> 00:12:31.040 and He will direct the for good yay. When thou liest down at 00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:34.280 night, lie down unto the Lord, that He may watch over you in 00:12:34.280 --> 00:12:37.880 your sleep. And when thou rises in the morning, let thy heart be 00:12:37.880 --> 00:12:41.870 full of thanks unto God. And if you do these things, you shall 00:12:41.870 --> 00:12:43.370 be lifted up with the last day. 00:12:44.330 --> 00:12:48.020 To counsel with God means to talk to him, and then to listen. 00:12:48.770 --> 00:12:52.940 So let's go back to those three things. We pray to Heavenly 00:12:52.940 --> 00:12:56.510 Father in the name of Jesus Christ, and we are answered 00:12:56.510 --> 00:13:01.730 through the Holy Ghost. So we start our prayer, kind of like a 00:13:01.730 --> 00:13:06.500 letter right directly, Father, we finish it with the closing, 00:13:06.500 --> 00:13:10.700 which is in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Suggesting that we 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.410 are aware that we are the thing that we have taken upon 00:13:15.410 --> 00:13:18.110 ourselves the name of Jesus Christ, that He is there with 00:13:18.110 --> 00:13:23.240 us, trying to help us get better, and going through this 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.030 whole process. And then we're answered through the Holy Ghost. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.260 Now. I don't want to get too much into the answers of 00:13:30.260 --> 00:13:33.200 prayers. In this particular episode, we can do that another 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:38.000 time. But the answers when they come from the Holy Ghost, first 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.650 of all, you have to be in a place to be able to hear the 00:13:39.650 --> 00:13:43.160 Holy Ghost. And we all know where those places are for us. 00:13:43.820 --> 00:13:47.450 I'm not here to judge your place. You're not judging mine. 00:13:48.350 --> 00:13:51.830 Get to a place where you can feel the spirit. Be thinking 00:13:51.830 --> 00:13:55.490 about the questions that you've asked or the guidance that 00:13:55.490 --> 00:14:03.590 you're looking for. And then those answers will come. I'll 00:14:03.590 --> 00:14:09.410 share an experience related to kind of the infertility thing. I 00:14:09.410 --> 00:14:12.410 was pregnant with my first daughter, finally, right. Three 00:14:12.410 --> 00:14:19.040 miscarriages, finally pregnant. But I was freaking out about 00:14:19.040 --> 00:14:22.220 everything. Like every time we went to the bathroom, if there 00:14:22.220 --> 00:14:28.310 was any hints of things maybe not going well, I was I was a 00:14:28.310 --> 00:14:36.200 mess. And the answers came twice. That I remember, answers 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:39.200 came way more times than that. But there are these two very 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.470 distinct times that I remember. One time I was on my way to 00:14:42.470 --> 00:14:45.920 work, and I was freaking out a little bit. And I was trying to 00:14:45.920 --> 00:14:49.370 calm myself down. And I remember exactly where I was on the 00:14:49.370 --> 00:14:57.350 freeway. There was driving north up in Orange County, and I I was 00:14:57.350 --> 00:15:00.260 driving through Camp Pendleton and it was kind of freaky. out a 00:15:00.260 --> 00:15:10.670 little bit and I was crying a little bit and I got this very I 00:15:10.670 --> 00:15:12.830 want to say loud voice but it's not like somebody was sitting in 00:15:12.830 --> 00:15:18.950 the car shouting at me. i This like Heart to Heart voice this 00:15:18.950 --> 00:15:22.520 voice in my heart said, Did I not speak peace to your mind 00:15:22.520 --> 00:15:25.520 concerning the matter? Now I know that the scripture in the 00:15:25.520 --> 00:15:28.970 Doctrine and Covenants was given to Oliver Cowdery. I read that 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:36.800 somewhere in all of my studies for today, but I needed at that 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:41.510 moment, and I'm not kidding, it felt like a not a sauna. But it 00:15:41.510 --> 00:15:45.710 felt like a heater turned on in my car, like I just, it felt 00:15:45.710 --> 00:15:49.850 warm and comforting. And everything was going to be okay. 00:15:50.660 --> 00:15:53.810 Did I not seek peace to your mind concerning the matter the 00:15:53.810 --> 00:15:57.170 second time, and I don't, these might be flip flopped. 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:05.870 The second time, also in my car, and I was freaking out a little 00:16:05.870 --> 00:16:08.510 bit. I was getting in my car to go somewhere, I wasn't going to 00:16:08.510 --> 00:16:10.550 work. This time, I was going somewhere else. I don't remember 00:16:10.550 --> 00:16:17.030 where it was going. And I turned on my music. And I can't 00:16:17.030 --> 00:16:19.430 remember the girl's name or first name is Rachel, but it's 00:16:19.430 --> 00:16:27.710 called fight song. And this song came on my music. Use Pandora 00:16:28.250 --> 00:16:32.540 came on. And I had it up really loud from the last time that I 00:16:32.540 --> 00:16:39.200 had been in the car. And I just got this very, like I got I had 00:16:42.890 --> 00:16:50.270 I felt like it was my babies song. Like it was it was her 00:16:50.270 --> 00:16:53.150 fight song. And she was going to fight and she was going to be 00:16:53.150 --> 00:16:57.620 okay. I did get the experiences flopped, that one happened 00:16:57.620 --> 00:17:02.420 first. And when that one happened, I was like, Oh, she's 00:17:02.420 --> 00:17:08.720 gonna be okay. And I just got this, like I just knew. But 00:17:08.870 --> 00:17:13.790 Satan works on us. And he works hard. And so by the time I got 00:17:13.790 --> 00:17:16.550 that second winner, but by the time I needed that second one, 00:17:16.790 --> 00:17:21.290 some weeks had gone by. And that's why I got that that 00:17:21.290 --> 00:17:24.350 response, did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the 00:17:24.350 --> 00:17:29.240 matter? I had already been given that peace. Again, not going to 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.950 get into the whole answers to prayers thing. But I use that to 00:17:33.950 --> 00:17:38.120 show examples of how we are answered through the Holy Ghost. 00:17:38.420 --> 00:17:40.760 So we pray to our Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus 00:17:40.760 --> 00:17:48.500 Christ were answered through the Holy Ghost. There are, let's 00:17:48.500 --> 00:17:56.750 see, there's 2, 1, 2 there are two more quotes that I want to 00:17:56.750 --> 00:18:03.050 leave you with. This one comes from a talk given by President 00:18:03.050 --> 00:18:07.790 Kimball in 1974, called ocean currents and family influences. 00:18:08.060 --> 00:18:11.210 He's talking about just kind of the mess that the world is in in 00:18:11.210 --> 00:18:15.620 the 70s. So I mean, it's worse now. But he's talking about that 00:18:15.620 --> 00:18:19.700 mess. And he says, It is not enough just to pray, it is 00:18:19.700 --> 00:18:23.930 essential that we really speak to the Lord, having faith that 00:18:23.930 --> 00:18:29.360 He will reveal to us what we need to do. I'm sorry, what we 00:18:29.360 --> 00:18:32.930 need to know and do for the welfare of our families. 00:18:35.750 --> 00:18:40.850 Families look different. It might just be you. That's okay. 00:18:41.060 --> 00:18:47.960 You're a family. Have faith that He will reveal to you what you 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:53.720 need to do, and know, for the welfare of you, of your family. 00:18:54.500 --> 00:18:55.430 So there's that one. 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.050 And then actually, in the addiction recovery program. 00:19:00.790 --> 00:19:07.750 Someone that I love very much had a substance abuse problem. 00:19:07.780 --> 00:19:10.900 And so I was attending addiction recovery classes with them for 00:19:11.650 --> 00:19:19.330 with them for a while, almost a year. And so that's how I know 00:19:19.330 --> 00:19:22.690 that this quote is in here. But it says you can pray that the 00:19:22.690 --> 00:19:27.850 Lord will help you see yourself and your life as he sees it with 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:35.170 all your divine potential. So I have two tags. In my gospel 00:19:35.170 --> 00:19:38.560 library, I have prayer and I have things you can pray for. 00:19:39.010 --> 00:19:41.350 And this is one of the things that I tagged as things that you 00:19:41.350 --> 00:19:45.400 can pray for. You can pray that the Lord will help you see 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:51.760 yourself and your life as he sees it with all your divine 00:19:51.760 --> 00:19:57.400 potential. How incredible is that? I think you know we spend 00:19:57.490 --> 00:20:00.700 some time some of us we spend some time I haven't done it in a 00:20:00.700 --> 00:20:03.760 while it probably should. We spend some time praying to be 00:20:03.760 --> 00:20:06.550 able to see others as our Heavenly Father sees them. When 00:20:06.550 --> 00:20:09.760 was the last time that you prayed to see yourself as 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:15.400 Heavenly Father sees you? And all your divine potential? How 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:19.180 cool is that? Who wouldn't love to see themselves as God sees 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:22.480 them? With all of that divine love? 00:20:24.040 --> 00:20:30.434 Okay, you guys. Those are my thoughts on sincere prayer. 00:20:30.548 --> 00:20:37.514 That's how I feel about it. I know that it works. I know that 00:20:37.628 --> 00:20:44.480 not getting the answer that you want, or the answer that you 00:20:44.594 --> 00:20:51.446 think you need is hard, really, really hard. But I also know 00:20:51.560 --> 00:20:58.183 that God is there and he's listening and he hears you, and 00:20:58.297 --> 00:21:05.149 He wants to give you everything that you want. But he has to 00:21:05.263 --> 00:21:12.114 give you what is best for you. Sorry, I'll quote I'll leave. 00:21:12.229 --> 00:21:19.308 I'll close with this one quote from going back to elder Scott. 00:21:19.423 --> 00:21:25.589 It is so hard when sincere prayer about something your 00:21:25.703 --> 00:21:32.098 desire very much is not answered the way you want. It is 00:21:32.212 --> 00:21:39.178 difficult to understand why your exercise of deep and sincere 00:21:39.292 --> 00:21:46.372 faith from an obedient life does not grant the desired result. 00:21:46.486 --> 00:21:53.680 The Savior taught whatsoever he asked the Father in my name, it 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:54.581 We have to learn to look for answers to our prayers, obey the 00:21:53.794 --> 00:22:01.103 shall be given unto you that is expedient for you. That times it 00:21:54.654 --> 00:21:58.858 council and just keep going, don't let your don't let your 00:21:58.931 --> 00:22:03.135 anger get the better of you. Leave it with him, give it to 00:22:01.217 --> 00:22:07.954 is difficult to recognize what is best or expedient for you 00:22:03.208 --> 00:22:07.557 him. That is also using the atonement. That's part of saying 00:22:07.630 --> 00:22:11.907 it in the name of Jesus Christ, right? Using the atonement, 00:22:08.068 --> 00:22:15.034 over time, your life will be easier when you accept that what 00:22:11.979 --> 00:22:16.474 leaving it at his feet, allowing him to take the anger and the 00:22:15.148 --> 00:22:21.657 God does in your life is for your eternal good. There's a 00:22:16.546 --> 00:22:20.823 hurt and the frustration. And maybe we can dive in a little 00:22:20.896 --> 00:22:25.173 bit more on that another time when we talk about answers to 00:22:21.772 --> 00:22:28.395 great big picture that we just can't see. Because we don't 00:22:25.245 --> 00:22:29.812 prayers. Anyway, thank you guys. Thanks for being here. This. I 00:22:28.509 --> 00:22:35.018 remember everything that happened before we came here. We 00:22:29.885 --> 00:22:34.452 enjoy doing this more and more every time. This one is probably 00:22:34.524 --> 00:22:38.874 really long. I haven't been keeping track of how long it is. 00:22:35.132 --> 00:22:41.869 don't remember being with our Heavenly Father, and how much 00:22:38.946 --> 00:22:43.223 But thanks for being here with me. I appreciate all of your 00:22:41.984 --> 00:22:48.949 love there was in that space. Someday, we will remember that. 00:22:43.296 --> 00:22:47.573 time and all of your effort and your comments. So keep them 00:22:47.645 --> 00:22:51.995 coming. And I will talk to you again later this week. Thanks 00:22:49.063 --> 00:22:53.860 And right now it's just a matter of trust. 00:22:52.067 --> 00:22:53.880 everybody. See you later.