This is a story about my spiritual and mental journey. I love the scripture that says,  “47 But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him. 48 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ…”   Moroni 7:48 I’ve done that throughout my life to different degrees, but about 6 months ago, I got serious about praying for charity. For some reason,…

Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to bear my testimony in sacrament meeting and share the story of a near death experience that I endured about 6 months ago.  To paraphrase, I was running down the highway through American Fork Canyon, blasting music at an unholy volume, and I felt a prompting to remove one of my earbuds. Because of this, I was able to hear a car that was approaching from behind and be able to move off the highway accordingly, but since I was running in the oncoming lane, I wasn’t in too much danger of being struck by the car from behind…. Later on down the canyon,…

During World War II, Elder Graham W. Doxey was in the navy posted to China. He and several others went by train to the city of Tientsin to look around. Later they boarded a train to return to their base, but after more than an hour, the train turned north. They were on the wrong train! They spoke no Chinese. They pulled the emergency cord and stopped the train. They were put off somewhere in the countryside with nothing to do but walk back to the city. After walking for some time, they found a small pump-handle car, the kind that the railroad workers use. They set it in the…

A lady in her late 40’s joined our congregation last year. She was homeless at the time missionaries found her, having left her home on the East Coast and driven to the Mountain West to rent a place that turned out to be rental fraud. Eventually she got rental assistance from the government and lived in our area for 9 months. That changed however when an apartment maintenance worker discovered that her puppy had been mauling the corners of all the walls in her apartment. She got evicted. It was late September and she was looking at living in her car until she found a new place. I had a…

I do know that God is in the details of my life. I have seen Him in the form of mortal angels, heard Him in the form of an uplifting phone call, felt Him in the comforting whispers of the still small voice, understood Him in the prompts for guidance. Some many years ago we had the effects of a change in the economy that had a devastating effect on our family. My business was in the real estate world. Interest rates soared to the mid teens and made it very difficult to sell the homes we were building. It shut our business down. We were faced with where we…

My mother, grandmother and my mom’s sisters are really close. There wasn’t a month that went by that my mom and us kids would drive two hours away to see her ~ except the winters when the roads were too dangerous to travel because of the snow. When we would travel there were two different roads we could take. The main road which took us two hours, and the not so traveled scenic road that only took an hour and a half. Many times we would take the scenic route if the weather was good because it was quicker. This one day sometime in November, we were on our way…

Let’s say life can be super hard sometimes.  We definitely ALL go through ups and downs.  Usually it’s at different times and I believe we are blessed with friends and family who show up to help us during those hard times.