Trenton

So another beautiful moment tonight (after the many at Mom and Dads house tonight) happened with our little Trenton. He has struggled for awhile to be able to feel and recognize the peace and joy of the Holy Ghost. Comments he has made have shown us that he has an earnest sincere desire to feel it but he has just been unable to identify with a spiritual experience until tonight. The kids were hungry when we got home so I decided to let them eat some grapes while we watched some Mormon messages. After watching four or five Amber and I told them they needed to go to bed. Trey responded that he wanted to keep on learning about Jesus and the other kids concurred. We decided to let the kids keep watching them and told them to go get their blankets and pillows so they could continue their spiritual feast. As Trenton started to walk out you could tell from his voice that he was so happy as he told us that he had said a personal prayer to Heavenly Father to ask if he could feel the Holy Ghost. He told us that his prayer was answered tonight as he watched the prophets and apostles speak. He explained that not only had he felt the Holy Ghost but had also felt Heavenly Father and Jesus as well.

As he said this we could just see and feel his joy at receiving an answered to a sincere prayer. My heart is currently swollen in gratitude to our Father in Heaven for providing so many blessings to us and for Him providing such a sweet tender mercy for my son. I know that our Father in Heaven lives as does His Holy Son Jesus! What a blessed plan that Father has provided to us that allows us to have sweet experiences such as this for the rest of eternity. What joy and what marvelous light!

I also had my heart filled with gratitude for parents who raised me in the gospel and parents of my wife who raised such an amazing daughter. We wouldn't be able to have these same experiences if we didn't have the gospel in our lives. I am eternally grateful for its reality and for the life and Atonement of Christ that makes God's plan effective for all of us. Oh sweet the joy this sentence gives! I know that my Redeemer lives!