Inspiration

Every fast Sunday in Young Womens we combine all the girls together for a lesson from one of the leaders. This past week I had the thought to text the leader that was scheduled to teach to make sure she was aware, but I was pretty sure she was so I didn't worry about it. Until this morning when she texted me early. She realized she was supposed to teach but she was out of town. It made me realize that the little thought I had earlier in the week was from the Spirit and I didn't listen!
But what was really neat was that when I woke up this morning I had this scripture in my mind: "...by small and simple things are great things brought to pass..." Alma 37:6. I had the feeling to do a lesson based on that scripture. I second guessed it a lot because there are really great outlines for lessons in the 'Come Follow Me' manual that would be easier to teach from, but I decided not to ignore the prompting this time! I need to listen to the spirit!
Right before we left I found a great conference talk from President Oaks titled "Small and Simple Things." I discussed scriptural examples with Brad on the way to church and I spent most of sacrament meeting in the mother's room nursing Luke and thinking of good questions to ask the girls. In an hour I had an outline for the lesson and it ended up coming together OK. The girls commented and we had plenty of material for the entire time. I was so grateful! Mainly because I was touched in knowing that even though I had failed to heed the spiritual prompting to avoid this situation, I was blessed with another spiritual prompting to fix the situation. I obviously didn't deserve any help, but our Heavenly Father loves us so much that He will always be there to help us even when we've done something wrong or have failed in some way. We may brush off spiritual promptings and not listen to them, but He will keep sending more because He loves us!

Bonus spiritual moments from the day: Kade fasted for his first time and he bore his testimony in sacrament meeting! It was so sweet. I wish I could have seen him, but I heard his sweet voice in the mother's room and it made me cry happy tears. He's such a good boy.