Sunrise Tantalize

Well, I feel much better today. Some chemical must have been off in my brain or it was a weird side effect of my endocrine condition. Anyhow, church was the highlight of my day yesterday. I ended up going to the later ward that meets in the same building as my ward. My mom wanted to go out for breakfast in the morning and I’m not going to argue with mom on Mother’s Day. Luckily I knew a few families from when the Boy and I visited that ward, and sat with Kirsty and her family. Kirsty was a huge help and she has the convert experience. Her dad took several years to convert so it was helpful to talk to her about that too. Oh, and they passed out chocolate to all the women. Now that’s my kind of church!! (Just kidding - kind of)

The Gospel Principles lesson was on the Holy Ghost. The LDS concept of the Holy Ghost is really unique. Probably because the LDS Church lacks the Trinitarian belief of my old Presbyterian church. The rest of this post will probably sound rather strange to those who aren’t familiar with LDS beliefs. Anyhow, in the Gospel Principles class, Kirsty told me about the analogy of how the Holy Ghost is like the sun. There is just one sun but people everywhere can feel the sun when they’re standing in it. Remove yourself from the sun by standing in the shade is like blocking the Holy Ghost by not following God’s commandments. When you’re in the shade, you can still feel some heat from the sun and you remember what it feels like. I know now this is a common analogy, but whoever thought it up was very clever!

Sometimes I get so frustrated that I can’t always feel the Holy Ghost.  Like the answers don’t come very easily. I have to work much harder for them. I feel like I have to jump up and down and wave my hands and shout “Hey! Over here! I have a question!” I’m hoping that I can feel the Holy Ghost all the time after being baptized. Kirsty told me that she was baptized in her mid-teens and she could feel the Holy Ghost right away.

I did finally pray with intent about drinking alcohol. I’ve prayed several times before and never really got an answer, but I think I wasn’t ready to hear an answer. So on Saturday night I prayed to know if I should follow the Word of Wisdom and not drink. A few hours later, I had my answer. One way the Holy Ghost speaks to me is when I sense a very strong, clear thought that wasn’t there before. This time the thought was “Sometimes you don’t know why I ask you to do things, but in time, I will will make these things known.”