March 9, 2020 - Meditating


This week has gone by really fast and usually that's a sign that lots of stuff happened but nope we had a lot of stuff almost happen. So we will move on to next week and try a little harder to get things moving. One thought I had this week was the relationship between pondering and prayer. Someone asked how do you get to know someone? The answer is you spend time with them, so it is no different with our heavenly father we need to spend time talking to him everyday to be able to build a relationship with him. And I had many reminders this week from the scriptures and the spirit that as we pray we are literally talking to our father in heaven and need to speak with him as we would if he was standing in front of us. I can't say how many times I have stopped myself in the middle of a prayer this week and said "wow that sucked, I didn't even say anything meaningful" and start again. So as I am trying to have more sincere prayers I encourage all of you to do the same. Now pondering, I am the best at pondering things that don't even matter or getting off onto some random tangent about how I ate Mac and cheese with pulled pork one time(actually happened this week). Then sitting in silence and listening for an answer is really important and I'm trying to clear my mind and just listen to the spirit but once again I'm not very good at it lol. I invite all yall to do the same and work on praying and listening this week. 

 Love you all
Elder Barlow

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