Testimony builder

Sunday was fast and testimony meeting at church. 

First, a miracle of sorts happened.  Austin finally beat his fear and stood up to bear his testimony.  Prayers are answered.  EFY taught him a lot and built his testimony.  Well worth the almost $500.00.  You can't put a price on testimonies and those spiritual experiences for our kids.  So it happened that 4 of the 5 in my family bore testimony on Sunday.  It felt a little like we were taking over, but it also filled me with joy.  Heston is obviously too little to do it without help yet.

Our neighbor is a spiritual giant.  Very knowledgeable in the gospel and the scriptures.  He and his wife now work in the temple once a week.  In one of their meetings President Grimshaw from the temple presidency told a story to confirm how prayers work.  There were 2 neighbors who both were going through struggles at the same time.  One had a heart attack and had gone through open heart surgery.  The other had cancer and was going through treatment which was obviously a longer recovery process.  These 2 men helped each other and talked with each other as they were recovering.  They were noting how much love and support they got from the people around them as they were going through their trials.  As they started to recover the people and support got less and less until a point where the man going through cancer treatment started to feel alone.  He went to Heavenly Father in prayer pleading with the Lord that if he wasn't going to cure his cancer to please just take him and that he couldn't do it alone any more.  He had a dream shortly after that where a man came to him and he was holding a scroll.  The man unrolled the lengthy scroll which had columns of names on it and he told this man that he wasn't alone and this scroll contained the names of all the people who were offering prayers for him.  So it isn't just people here who are praying, but also on the other side of the veil.  Prayers are powerful and answered!