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How to prepare for marriage and parenting.
Is there even really a way to prepare for the biggest changes
that will happen in your life?
I really don't think there's a way
to best prepare other than trusting in the Lord
and doing everything that you can to make sure
that you are spiritually ready for what's going to happen.
These are huge changes in our life.
You're going to go from single to committing yourself to one
person for the rest of your life, for the rest of eternity,
and that right there in itself is a huge change.
And then as you adjust to that change,
now you have these children who now require your full
and undivided attention, and it's a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week,
365-day-a-year job.
And these changes, they raise so many questions.
Am I really ready?
Do I know what I'm doing?
How do I know that I'm being a good spouse?
How do I know I'm being a good parent?
What do I do?
Where do I go?
Who do I talk to?
And I took it to the Lord every single day multiple times a day
when I was dating my now husband,
and we did the same thing when we
felt inspired to bring children into our marriage.
We were in the temple, and we had the strong impression.
And so we prayed everyday, and we felt
like it was the right time.
And it's been hard.
It's been scary.
And now we have two children.
But it's working, and we see the blessings of God
the harder and harder that we try.
And I truly--for myself, I truly believe that the answers come
as we are praying and as we're trying.
And sometimes the answer from Heavenly Father
is "You know what you're doing, I trust you,
you go, and I will give you a little bump
if you're going the wrong way."
And that's a scary decision, and it's a scary answer
to receive sometimes because it's not very clear.
And it's hard to trust ourselves,
but the Lord trusts us.
And if the Lord can trust us to make the right decision,
then we can be relieved in knowing that He will help us
and He will guide us along the way.
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