Pure and Simple Faith

Today I checked out a blog that I haven't looked at for a while: http://www.cranialhiccups.com/2018/12/come-follow-me-new-testament-resources.html

This blogger has a page on resources for each week's Come Follow Me lessons that was pretty interesting. I hope to use some of them in the near future. One resource was a video from lds.org called: Pure and Simple Faith

The young girl in the video looks like she is from the Philippines or some similar country and her needs are much different from my own. But it was a good reminder to me that I need to exercise more faith in Christ in my own personal challenges. Reading or viewing stories of other people's faith strengthens my own.

Last fall I exercised some hope and faith by planting some bulbs that my mother gave me for my birthday. It was a lot of work to dig up the soil to properly plant them but my faith has been rewarded this week. It's been slow this year but spring is finally coming!

On Monday we hosted a guest for dinner who has been a friend of Scott's for a long time in the atomic physics world. They do very similar research. He came to the university to give a talk in my husband's department and came to our house afterwards. It was good to finally meet this person whom I've been hearing about from my husband for the last 20 years. I guess my faith in my husband that this person existed was finally rewarded. Sometimes I don't have as much faith in him as I should but in the end, he comes through.

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