The Holy Ghost Will Answer Your Prayer In A Way You Will Understand

From Karsten Hinckley

Teaching in Thailand 

Sister Rung this last week came into a lesson and was telling us how she was just having a really hard time. She was telling us about how her mother wasn’t accepting of her and this and that. It was really hard to listen to because she deserves better. She was just crying and I had a thought. I grabbed a few hymn books and told her that we would sing two songs. I knew that singing would help us say things that are hard to say. We sang, Let the Holy Spirit Guide and then I Need Thee Every Hour. The spirit was so strong! You could feel it so powerfully! After we sang and said a prayer she said that she was felt so much better! 3 days later we met with her again and ended up singing a song before we ended the lesson by singing The Spirit of God. It was just like the other day, so powerful! I challenge you that if you are stuck with a investigator to sing a song with them. It has really helped us and our investigators a lot! 

Brother Tong had still not prayed about Joseph Smith. He said he didn’t know how Heavenly Father would answer him. We have told him so many times that the Holy Ghost would answer your prayer in a way that you'll understand. In the middle of the lesson he asked," Can I pray and ask right now?" Well yes of course you can. He prayed right then and after about 2 minutes of silence he got his answer that Joseph Smith was true. He's getting baptized on June 12th! 

 

Today I called one of my [recent converts], she said, “Elder Hinckley my mom is interested!" That makes me so happy!

A Humbling and Peaceful Experience

From David and Viola Ricks

Teaching in Germany

There is an older couple that we have visited on a regular basis, probably the first couple that we visited when we got here.  She has waited on him hand and foot every since we got here.  She is 89 and has been a complete angel in her care for him.  That is what I call her when I see her, "an angel".  He hasn't appreciated it too much because he has wanted me to call HIM an angel also.  He has been a very nice man, but he hasn't been the angel.  Sister Ricks hasn't known what to do when we visit, so she has always prepared a song to sing and they have always enjoyed that very much.  When we visited he always said, just before we get sat down, “Where is my Botschaft?” which means message.  When the message was finished, then he would ask for his song, which they always enjoyed; then he would get tears in his eyes and bear his testimony. 

We got a call yesterday evening…that Brother Meyer had died.  We went and got the elders and took them to the hospital where he was.  We had wanted to visit him on Wednesday, but had not found the place before we ran out of time for our next visit.  So we missed them, kind of sad.  Anyway, we found the place this time.  He was lying there and had been dead for a couple of hours.  A wonderful young Relief Society president and her husband were there and were tenderly attending to Sister Meyer’s  every need.  They had gone to visit and it just so happened that Bother Meyer passed away while they were there.  Otherwise, Sister Meyer would have been alone.  What a tender mercy, and example of a Relief Society President responding to a prompting.  

The spirit was so strong there.  Elder Fialho said a very heartferlt prayer, and then said, "He is still here."  And his spirit was there.  We could still feel his presence.  He was a very faithful, endowed man who loved the gospel with all of his heart.  His wife is a non-member, but always read the Book of Mormon with him every day, and came to church with him before he became too feeble.   Like Elder Ricks said, “She is an angel.”

I felt like we should sing a song.  The feeling was just as if we were in his small apartment again and he said he wanted the "singen".  The Elders are very musical and had been having the same feelings.  Elder Fialho even had the song running through his head.  Sis Meyer said that would be nice and walked over to her husband and patted his cheek and said, "Sweetie, they want to sing you a song before they leave."  She was really touched and full of joy for the song.  Dad said we did a wonderful job of singing  Naher mein Gott zu dir,  Nearer my God to thee.  We all left together.  It was a very humbling and peaceful experience. The Elders will have impressed on their hearts for a lifetime.