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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
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