If you want to have an easy life, don't, I repeat DON'T ask your Heavenly Father to help you have more faith! Well, that's what I asked for and my prayers have been answered. I've been given quite a few opportunities to develop faith and it's been wearing on me. Not that anything disasterous has happened, but I've been given some things that are difficult for me to handle. I feel like I've grown in the last few weeks but sometimes the little things can make all the difference in the world.
My friend and I are doing a calling together. Actually, we've done a few callings together, so we know each other fairly well. We decided to have a fast for help with our calling. They day before we fasted she came up to me and gave me a great big hug and told me that she loved me. How sweet is that? I needed that hug. Then, the next day I asked her what her thoughts were about our calling. She looked down and said that she didn't exactly fast for that . . . instead she fasted for me. She said she felt I had been struggling and needed it. Wow, talk about an answer to a prayer.
I've been thinking a lot about that. So many times I see someone that I love that is struggling with something. I often times feel helpless because I think that there isn't really anything that I can do. This week I was taught that there is something I can do. I can ask Heavenly Father to help them. I can exercise faith on their behalf, for them. Isn't that what loving each other is all about? So, thank you to my sweet friend for helping me to develop my faith and for supporting me when I needed it most.
