Ive been teaching Gospel doctrine for the past 5 months. I have a lot more to say about that then I will in this blog post, but to sum it up, this has been a very daunting calling for me. Especially when I got called during the year when they were reading the OT. And I know verrrrrry little of the OT.

But moving on, we are studying out of the NT and the new Come Follow Me curriculam that was put out by the church. It's amazing! I love that the whole church is reading and studying the same lesson every week. This past lesson was on the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6-7. I was really struggling with the direction to go in. All week I had been studying, researching and learning about prayer but still had no idea what to teach. I was so frustrated to the point where I hoped I would get sick so I wouldn't have to teach.

Well Friday came and I just started writing things down as I was left to a few days before my class. I spent 3 hours typing my lesson up. I woke up Saturday morning and felt so uneasy about the lesson I planned. Now what was I supposed to do. I didn't have a lot of time that day since Bryan had just worked a 24 hour shift and I knew he would be tired. So I got down on my knees and this time instead of praying "please help me with my lesson" it was more like "okay I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! I'm humbled and so ready to learn what you would have me teach."

The impression I got a few minutes later was to let people share their experiences with prayer. Although I was grateful for that direction, I was nervous because that left my lesson very wide open and who knew if people would be willing or wanting to share that day?
I also received my own revelation that day that I needed to spend less time trying to make it an epic lesson and try to "fit" in with all the educated people in my class and focus on those new converts. So that's what I did and I'm so grateful because the spirit in that class was so strong and He was right.... For 45 minutes straight, people shared their thoughts and testimony on prayer. It was amazing, there were hand after hand raised and all such great comments.

I also asked a few people to come to class with experiences on prayer, one of them being the new member to our ward who was just baptized. It was such a sweet testimony that she bore.

The irony of it all was I had my own real life experience with prayer that week as I prayed to know how to teach on the topic of "prayer" ha!
I'm so grateful that He cares so much about me and my class to help my realize my faults and change the direction of the class!