One day I was driving in Salt Lake City when I picked up a girl who was about 20 years old. She was leaving her boyfriends house but when she got in the car, I could tell that she was very confused and overwhelmed. She seemed to have a shadow over countenance.
We were going from Salt Lake City all the way out to magna so we had plenty of time and we started talking about life. She talk to me about how difficult things were and that her father had passed away last year. Right then her trials opened up to me and I could see them in my mind and feel them in my heart.
She asked me what I thought she should do. I said the first thing you should do is understand that God loves you. You’re his daughter and he knows what you’re going through. He hurts for your pain and sorrow. I said to her that I had the impression that her father was a very active member in the church, and that it brought him a lot of peace. I said that peace was there for her too.
When I said these things the spirit came very strongly into our conversation and it was very obvious to me that the spirit of the Lord and also her father were there in the car with us. I asked her if she could feel that and she said that she could. I asked her if she could feel the presence of her father and she said yes.
She started to cry and talk about how good that felt. I asked her why they would be there and she said because they love me? And I said she was right.
I continued saying the words that came to my heart and I said “you’re not happy with your boyfriend and that whole situation are you? She answered, no! We then discussed how damaging it is to your spirit to have a relationship where you don’t honor the law of chastity. We talked about how that puts a barrier between God and you. She said she felt unhappy in that relationship and was going to leave it. I have no doubt that it was a spirit pulling on her.
I then started to talk about her mother and her older sisters and how they had been leaning on her and coming to her for support and the weight that placed on her which did not allow her to grieve and heal.
By this time she was full on sobbing and asked me how I knew that. I told her it was the spirit of God whispering it to me. I said God and her father loved her and they wanted her to get help. I told her that it was not an accident that I was the driver that was assigned her that day and that God has placed me there so that she could feel his love.
I asked her if she knew who her bishop was. To this point we hadn’t discussed the church but I was prompted to ask that question. She said yes but that she hadn’t been to church in five years. She told me she had started to rebel back then.
I told her that she needed to go to her bishop. I said that they would discuss the pressure on her from the family and her desires to get right with God. I said he would help her and either counsel with her or get her counseling to help her through her grieving process as well as help her heal her spirit. I told her if she did these things she would feel the feeling we were feeling right then more often
She responded with a smile and a light that chased away the shadow that had been over her countenance. She said now I know what to do. I helped her look up her bishops phone number right there in the car using the church website.
We took a couple of minutes to discuss the spirit that we had felt and what it meant to her going forward. I told her that she should always look for that feeling and she said she would. She got out of the car and the ride was over although the feeling in the car rode on with me.
