Jeanelle Averett - Central Ward

I needed the challenge of making my prayers more sincere.  In my household, it is really hard to find a quiet, private, place to pray, and I find myself rushing my prayers so that I am not interrupted or getting up from my knees before I've given myself a chance to hear an answer.  After I selected this topic, I read the next lesson from the Gordon B. Hinckley manual for 2017, (How Mighty a Thing is Prayer) and it was really timely to read how President Hinckley addressed our Heavenly Father while he prayed and how positively impacted his children were to hear him pray.  I love my Heavenly Father and I want to do as President Stucki counseled for our stake to become a Zion people by starting with myself and then my family and outward from there.  What better way to start than with prayer.