Prayer

I read Elder Scott's talk on prayer.  Prayer is something I want to understand better.  I want to understand how to be more effective in my prayers and how to recognize answers to them.  I know I have had prayers answered, when I look back in retrospect.  I think one way to make the answers easier to recognize is to write down both what I'm praying for and what I think the answers are when they come.  Elder Scott said there are three ways that prayers are answered:  "First, you can feel the peace, comfort, and assurance that confirm that your decision is right. Or second, you can sense that unsettled feeling, the stupor of thought, indicating that your choice is wrong. Or third—and this is the difficult one—you can feel no response."

He goes on to say if we feel the 3rd way, getting no repsonse, we should give thanks to the Lord because he trusts us enough to make the right decision. Prayer is a difficult thing but something worth always improving.  We have the chance to talk freely with the God who created us and worlds without end.  One thing I don't really do often is pray vocally but I'm going to try that this week and see how that changes my prayers.