i'm so happy sadie and abe are back home.
i realized these two give me my conversation fix each day, and i really missed my teenagers!
i like them. a lot.
that being said, they had the best time at disneyland with their friends in student government.
they loved the leadership training disneyland provided for their group and i think this trip is something they worked hard for and will never forget.
i hope when they remember the trip, they also remember the small, but real
experience they had with the holy ghost.
the first day, abe lost his phone.
he went back to find it. sadie wondered where he went. everyone kept telling her that he was with the other group and that he would text them later. sadie said she had the feeling to walk to a certain spot and so she left and did it. right when she got there, she saw abe walking toward her. he went back to look for his phone, but couldn't find it. so he was phone-less and by himself. she really felt directed to go back and find him.
i have been praying that my kids will have times when they feel the spirit.
i know this is just a small example, but i was able to testify to sadie that she felt the spirit, and yes, it was a feeling and a thought put into her mind. that's the way it works. it's small, but when we listen, it puts us where we need to be. it may not be a burning in our bosom twenty-four hours a day, but when she needed it, it was there and she listened.
Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.
Alma 37: 6-7
those small experiences can be easily dismissed, but when we trust, and believe, and follow- those experiences add up, and then when we need big guidance in our lives, we are familiar with that still small voice and the way it feels and works. it becomes an anchor to our souls. i know it.
i'm grateful for disneyland!
...and don't worry, on the last day they checked and someone had turned in abe's phone.
happiest place on earth? got that right!
(pics from sadie's VSCO account)
