Prayerful Help

I learned the power of simple faith in prayer and in the Holy Ghost when our children were small.
Our oldest son was not yet baptized.
His parents, Primary teachers, and priesthood servants had tried to help him feel and recognize the Spirit and know how to receive His help.

One afternoon my wife had taken him to the home of a woman who was teaching him to read.
Our plan was that I was to pick him up on my way home from work.

His lesson ended earlier than we had expected.
He felt confident that he knew the way home.
So he started to walk.
He said afterward that he had had complete confidence and liked the idea of being alone on the trip.
After he'd gone about half a mile, it started to grow dark.
He began to sense that he was still, very far from home.

He can still remember that the lights of the cars as they streamed past him were blurred by his tears.
He felt like a little child, not the confident boy who had begun to walk home alone.
He realized that he needed help.
Then something came to his memory.
He knew he was supposed to pray.
And so he left the road and headed toward some trees he could barely see in the darkness.
He found a place to kneel down.

Through the bushes he could hear voices coming toward him.
Two young people had heard him crying.
As they approached, they said, "Can we help you?"
Through his tears he told them he was lost and that he wanted to go home.
They asked if he knew his home phone number or address.
He didn't.
They asked if he knew his name.
He did know that.
They led him to the nearby place where they lived.
They found our family name in a phone book.

When I got the phone call, I rushed to the rescue grateful that kind people had been placed along his way home.
and I have been ever grateful he was taught to pray with faith that help would come when he was lost.
That faith has led him to safety and brought him more rescuers more times than he can count.

The Lord has placed a pattern of rescue and rescuers in His kingdom.
In his wisdom the Lord has inspired His servants to place some of the most powerful ways to strengthen us and to put in place the best rescuers as we pass through the teenage years.

-April 2010 General Conference -Henry B. Eyring -Help Them on Their Way Home

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi