Spiritual Promptings Assignment

Stacy Kudlicki
12/6/2007
REL 211 – Ludlow
Spiritual Promptings

Throughout this semester, I have counted six specific incidences wherein I felt the prompting of the Holy Ghost. Generally, they occurred about once every two weeks. One-third of the promptings occurred on a Sunday, while the other two-thirds happened in the middle of the week (usually a Tuesday or Wednesday).
In my experiences, the result of following the promptings of the Spirit usually resulted in stronger relationships with roommates or coworkers, and a stronger desire to develop a relationship with God. Things I still need to do include getting a temple recommend and submitting my ancestor’s names to the temple. Half of the promptings occurred in a setting specifically designed to allow the Spirit to speak to those who were there, while the other half occurred during random times of the week.
This tracking assignment has helped me to realize that the Spirit works through general feelings of love for those around me and a desire to selflessly serve everybody. When the Spirit comes to me, it encourages me to see the bigger picture and to take control of my actions. My testimony has grown a lot this semester, and it has helped that I have kept track of the times the Spirit has helped me try to gain stronger relationships with those around me, and with God.
My first experience was the feeling to not get upset at my coworkers, who had been lazy most of the day – leaving me to clean up after them so they could ditch work and go to devotional. While I wanted to get really vocal about my feelings, I held back. I saw somewhat of a bigger picture, held my tongue, and did not complain or rat them out to the boss when she came back in. Instead, I let their absence do the talking. My boss noticed I was the only one there and said she was glad she could trust me. I built a better relationship with my boss because I did not whine and complain about my coworkers.
A second prompting I felt happened during Sacrament meeting. My roommate started crying, so I felt like I should scratch her back and tell her that I admired her. She was glad to hear it, and told me thank you and that she needed to hear it. I felt like I had done a good service that day, even though it was so small.
A third prompting occurred while I was talking to a friend about saying prayers more often. Since I had been having trouble with remember to do so, I thought of ways I could remember, and I came up with the idea of starting a gratitude journal. I have been writing in it almost everyday, stating the things I was grateful for that particular day. The more I wrote, the more I remembered to thank my Heavenly Father.
A fourth experience was a testimony FHE in front of the temple. Many of us bore our testimonies with the temple as a beautiful backdrop, and the Spirit was very strong with the group. I had the feeling that I needed to try harder to get a closer relationship to God.
A fifth experience was the dream I had the night before of going through the temple with my family to receive my endowments. I woke with a great spiritual feeling and I felt like the daughter of God I had been trying to become my whole life.
A sixth experience was the love of Christ I had while and after watching “Savior of the World”. It was so much about him that I could not focus on one idea at a time, but I tried to. On the ride home, I asked the driver to change the music to something more uplifting like Christmas music. We listened, and I felt like my soul was singing with the music to God and I was getting closer to Him as my Father.