President Monson always has the most incredible stories
about when he listened to the promptings of the Spirit and something amazing
happened. I always think, “I wish something like that would happen to me… or
maybe it has and I just didn’t listen so there was no amazing outcome…”
Welll, I got my story today. :)
Jude and I got all bundled and geared up and outside we went
to mow the lawn. He hangs out in his stroller and supervises while I do the
mowing. I got Jude situated in a good spot, pulled the mower out of the scary
(bugs) shed, pulled the started once… failed. And just as I was about to try
again I had a feeling I should go lock Jude’s stroller. “Why?” I asked myself…
“He’s not going anywhere…” But then I thought “Maybe this is a prompting; I
better do it anyways.” I walked up to him and just as soon as I got to the
stroller I saw a huge DADDY LONG LEGS scampering his way across the top of his
stroller. I hesitated for one millisecond and then I swatted it off with my
hand (coughcoughmyglovedhandahem) and SAVED JUDE!!! I was so thrilled and proud
and thankful at all once. There is a good chance that nasty long-legged life
form would have eventually crawled ONTO JUDE and I would have literally had
either a heart or panic attack and I would have been so frazzled and bamboozled
I might not have been able to handle the situation very well. And a daddy long
legs on my JUDE?!?! That is just unacceptable for so many reasons.
Lesson learned: Heavenly Father is aware of me and my
littlest issues. The Holy Ghost is with me and prompts through a little
voice that warns me, among many other things. I am so thankful I listened to
that voice and even though it didn’t make sense, I did it. And even though I
didn’t need to lock the stroller, I needed to go up there to protect Jude from
the spider. So don’t try to rationalize whether the prompting makes sense or
not. It might not. And it doesn’t matter, we can’t see the big picture! But Heavenly Father can. And luckily, he is on our side, wanting and waiting to help us if we'll just listen.
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I love your story!! I remember thinking that I wanted those cool stories to happen to me too and sometimes wondering if it's the Spirit telling me to do something or just myself. Well we have awesome sister missionaries in our ward and they told me if it's a good thing, just do it and the Lord will give you more experiences the more you act on His promptings!!
ReplyDeletePresident Monson is so sweet, his stories are seriously the best! I love seeing your cute pictures, Jude is seriously unreal-ly cute. Oh and did you know daddy long legs actually aren't poisonous and they don't really bite at all? They actually hunt other bad spiders that are poisonous and they eat them! :) They are uber-creepy though with their long legs :/ I love the blog, you guys are the cutest!
ReplyDelete"SAVED JUDE!"
ReplyDeleteI miss you
But mostly, I love how ever since I've known you (minus all that time i hated you for having an A in your name)...you've always inspired me in the cutest ways. Either to kerfuffle life more, to be more sceney cool, or to be a better missionary or to watch Andy Griffith or a million other things! Just know that your words are heard and they make me SMILE the mostest.
Love this story! Way to save the day momma :)
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