More than Coincidence: Remembering Jesus Christ in Your Story

He Knows Me with Peggy

• Lily • Season 1 • Episode 29

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Transformative moments often arrive swaddled in the unexpected, as Peggy's family tales remind us. The birth of her granddaughter during Easter, an event laced with worry and complications, blossoms into a narrative about reliance on prayer and the solace of faith in times of uncertainty. Peggy's reflections on witnessing the Savior's hand in our lives and those of our family members sew a golden thread throughout our discussion, highlighting the interconnected web of our spiritual paths. It's a chapter that invites listeners to find comfort in the knowledge that even in life's most turbulent storms, we are never sailing alone.

As we trace the contours of Peggy's journey from Idaho to Utah, we uncover the resilience that faith instills during life's transitions. Faced with the challenge of finding new purpose in unfamiliar surroundings, Peggy recounts how patience and spiritual promptings led her to volunteer work, meaningful employment, and the cultivation of treasured friendships. Her testimony of faith and hope is a gentle reminder that even amidst change and periods of stillness, there's a guiding hand at work, crafting our lives with threads of divine love and purpose. Join us for an episode that promises to leave you feeling uplifted, connected, and ready to embrace the joys of simplicity and faith.

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Lily:

Hello everyone and welcome to. More Than Coincidence, remembering Jesus Christ in your Story as the author and finisher of our faith, our Savior writes personal experiences into each of our lives which can later strengthen, empower and bring us peace upon reflection. This podcast is dedicated to sharing these anchoring memories from everyone's unique stories in order to collectively remember and testify of the reality of Jesus Christ and his presence in our lives. I'm your host, lily, and I'm very excited to share these experiences together. Welcome everybody to the podcast today. Today we have Peggy. How are you doing, peggy? I'm doing well. Thank you, will you?

Peggy:

introduce yourself. Yes, I was born and raised in Idaho and lived on a farm on the outskirts of town with a big family. I have eight kids in our family and so I kind of sometimes growing up felt like I didn't fit in with all of the kids at school because I lived on a farm and I went into town to school, so it's not like we were totally excluded. But now as an adult, I really appreciate my upbringing and I'm grateful for the things I learned from my parents, from my upbringing, and met my husband, who was also born and raised on a farm in Washington, and when we met he was stationed in the Air Force in Mountain Home and the really fast relationship we met and he was going to be transferred overseas.

Peggy:

So we got married quickly and spent three years first three years of our marriage in England and our oldest son was born there and we have three children all together. We came back after he had completed like nine years with the Air Force and three children our oldest two are boys and then our youngest is our daughter two beautiful granddaughters and I just I don't know. I'm in a phase of life where I've enjoyed every part of my life, but I'm at a phase of my life where I look back and I'm so grateful and just love my life, and where we are, I feel like I'm doing what Heavenly Father wants me to do.

Lily:

And.

Peggy:

I am. I don't know if that's a great introduction. Do you have any questions?

Lily:

no, I think that's wonderful. My have you guys ever thought about getting a little farm? Because I feel like Michael, I dream about it, but I know it's a lot of work you know we, I would love to have a garden so I could grow vegetables and stuff.

Peggy:

But Mark was on a farm that they worked hard and he was the only boy in his family and so he's like I would never want a farm kind of thing. Yeah, and it is a lot of work. I was one of the younger kids so I didn't work as much as my siblings had to. I could sneak away and didn't do as much as my older siblings did. But I wish that's one thing is, I wish we had kind of a bigger space for a garden, Because I love to like cook from scratch and can and stuff like that. So I would love that. But I don't have a great desire to be on a farm with animals and stuff like that.

Lily:

It's a lot of work. Yeah, that's the thing. Michael and I always joke about buying a cow because we go through so much milk Like four gallons of milk in like 10 days because him and my kids just drink milk like crazy. So I always laugh, ha, ha ha. Wouldn't it be so funny if we had a farm and had a cow and stuff? But then no, you go, you drive by cows and you're like you know what, you're stinky.

Peggy:

Yeah, yeah, and I thought, oh, wouldn't it be cool to have chickens not have to buy eggs. But yeah, they're stinky too.

Lily:

They're stinky, they're so stinky. My grandma, growing up, she had ducks when I was really little and she would, because ducks have to have water, so she bought like a big kiddie pool for them and it was my job to go out and get. When the water turned green, I had to go out and get all the water out and dump it out and pour it. She told me to pour it on her gardens, so I'd go out and I'd pour it on the garden and then fill up the water again for the ducks. And so after that I was like you know, I'm never gonna have ducks, but you know chickens. But then she got chickens after she had the ducks and they were very stinky too, but then they scratched everywhere and they just tore up her garden and she was like, ah, the chickens. So and I feel like for me, like having to kill the animals in the end would make me so sad. I don't think I could ever do that.

Peggy:

I remember having chickens and having to pluck them, yeah, and that was one of the times when it smelled really bad and I was one of the younger kids and the bitter kids are all pulling the feathers off and I kind of snuck away and I didn't really help with that chore because it was not very pleasant.

Lily:

My grandpa, it was really funny, they had the six ducks and three really funny they had. So they had six. They had the six ducks and three of them were really big and they would always pick on this other male. And so it was getting to a point where my grandpa was like, okay, we can't have this anymore. So one day we just were like where did Huey Dewey and Louie go Like? And my, but in my grandpa he's. It was like first thing in the morning he pulls out. He had made this big bunch of chicken noodle soup and we were eating it and we're like where's Huey Dewey and Louie? And he looks at my mom and he's like this soup quacks. And we were like, no, we ate them. Because, yeah, my papa, he just had this big old barn in the back of their yard and he just went out and took care of them in the night and we didn't even know.

Peggy:

And next morning we had some duck soup and we were like, oh you taste so good, but why it was.

Lily:

It was my first experience with farm life, so I don't know. But we digress, but that's really fun that you got to do that growing up and stuff. But so to get back to our topic though, peggy, what memories do you have that you reflect on, that, perk your heart in remembrance of our Savior Jesus Christ and anchor you to him?

Peggy:

As I thought about this question, I thought about the very beginning of my life and stories that I heard.

Peggy:

Things I don't remember, but stories I heard from my family about when I was born, because I was premature and was in and out of the hospital a lot and in my mom wrote in her journals about. You know, I don't think I'm going to be comfortable until I was, you know, a toddler or older, because I was just sick so much and in and out of the hospital. And I know that, um, when I was in primary, they would do spotlight for kids and have all the primary kids stand up and they would say, okay, if you're a boy, sit down, all the boys sit down If you are, and they would name things off about the person and if it was didn't apply to you. Then you sat down and it got down to like just a couple of us standing up and I thought, oh, maybe I'm the spotlight this time, yeah. And they said, oh, maybe I'm the spotlight this time, yeah. And they said, okay, if you almost died when you were a baby, sit down. And I thought, man, and I sat down.

Peggy:

And they're like no, no, it's you, it's you, stand up. And I knew that my family had talked about it. I was premature and very small and sick and in and out of the hospital, but I didn't realize how extreme it was until after that I asked my mom. I said they told me I almost died when I was little, when I was in primary, and she goes, oh, yeah and um, she kind of told me about experiences and having um, my dad worked for the railroad Union Pacific and was out of town a lot driving and having um, the home teachers go and give me a blessing because they were so scared that I was not going to survive or had pneumonia and things like that. And there was one particular time and she said after that blessing she just felt at peace and I didn't ever have another problem, didn't ever go back to the hospital again.

Peggy:

And I feel like throughout my life I don't go to the doctor a lot, I don't get sick a lot. I mean I have gotten sick and things like that. But I feel like I've been blessed with health, kind of. And I just think you know, after that story Heavenly Father blessed me and from that blessing it's like lasted throughout my life. So cool, it's like lasted throughout my life. So cool. Just from when I was young, I feel like, and my mom told me I knew when you were a baby and all these things you went through and what you survived, kind of thing that you and in primary they told me too your mom said you have a purpose, that you're here on this earth, and so I've gone back to that a lot throughout my life when I had struggles, and that's one thing that's anchored me to Christ, that's helped me to go through and keep going when things were hard and to look for his hand in my life in other ways too.

Lily:

Right, because you can look back and say, okay, well, I was kept on this earth for so long already. All these little miracles, there's gotta be something. And it can give you that hope to look forward and say, okay, where's the little thing? How is he holding on to me today? Right, that's so awesome.

Peggy:

I think also with yesterday just being Easter, one thing that I thought about was seeing the Lord's hand and helping me remember that from my childhood when my granddaughter was born she was born on Easter five years ago and the experience that my daughter had it wasn't easy her labor and delivery A few doctor's appointments before the doctor had noticed she had high blood pressure and he was concerned and they made her go to be induced before the due date and my daughter really, really wanted to just try to do things natural, go into labor naturally. But she felt like, okay, the doctor knows what he's talking about, I'll do what they told me to do. Went to the hospital a little reluctantly and got induced and she was in labor for, you know, more than 24 hours, I think, and talking with her while she was there, the nurses told her it's like oh, your blood pressure is not high, your blood pressure is not high. And so she was kind of frustrated like why did the doctor make me come and do this?

Peggy:

I'm not progressing, I don't think that this, yeah, I don't think that the baby is ready and kind of doubting everything because it was taking so long. And then when she started pushing and we didn't go initially to the hospital right when she went because we knew it would take time but her husband called us and we went and it was like three hours we were waiting in the waiting room. It was taking a long, long time and my first labor and delivery with my oldest son was really difficult.

Peggy:

So the longer we waited, the more I thought about what I went through. Right and my heart hurt for my daughter and the longer it took, the more fearful I was that something was wrong. So we're sitting there. I said a prayer and just said Heavenly Father, just help me to have faith and hope and understanding, no matter what happens.

Peggy:

If there is something wrong, just help me and help my daughter to make it through this experience and not too long after that, her husband came and told us that she had delivered the baby and there were complications, and our granddaughter was quite a bit smaller than they expected. The cord was very thin and wrapped around her neck and she was blue and not breathing when she came out. Yeah, so they were rushing her off to to the nursery to try to um, take care of her and get her breathing and stuff. Everybody was going to the nursery and I had the thought while I was there you know, just go check on morgan knowing what I had gone through and how she was probably feeling not being able to have her baby there with her right after she was born, you know, being separated quickly from her.

Peggy:

And as I went to the hall to go to her room, I they were just wheeling Holland out and I was able to like have a quick, just a couple of seconds. They stopped. It's like if you want to just meet her yeah very, very quickly.

Peggy:

And then I went in to my daughter and I feel like that was a huge blessing from Heavenly Father, just that I was able to catch her in the hallway for even just a second, just to let me know that everything was going to be okay. Just to let me know that everything was going to be okay. And I just felt at peace and assurance, even though they had to do a lot of testing and things. And as they did testing and they took her in the nursery, watched the window and she was hooked up to every kind of machine there is and all this stuff, yeah, and there was not one thing wrong with her. And the doctor followed her to the nursery, kept going back to report to the parents, coming out and telling them what was going on, what were their testing and what they were finding. And the doctor told them I don't get scared very often labor and delivery but today I was scared and I believe the doctor was supposed to be talking in church or something.

Peggy:

It was Easter Sunday, yeah, and he stuck around and waited for them as long as he could before he had to leave, just to try to reassure them and help them. And that was a huge blessing and just testament to me that Heavenly Father was there. He was involved and I know everybody. We had a good outcome and there are people that go through those things that might not have a great outcome, but I'm grateful that I could see our Heavenly Father's hand. It makes me appreciate life and my children and just everything I don't know.

Lily:

Right, well, I love. I think it's really interesting that you bring up this story, because I don't think anyone yet has shared a story where it's that the memory that you reflect on was about your daughter in your life, because I feel like a lot of the stories that we have talked about is kind of the Savior directly, you know, you going through an experience that was hard for you or something like that. But this was very much about you seeing the Savior's hand through your daughter and through the experience that she was going through and how that was able to touch your life, and you were able to see the Savior's hand in her life and in yours at the same time, like that's so cool how he literally is there for both of us, for everybody, right?

Lily:

So I love that you share that, because it's true, like we're so connected with all of these experiences that when you share those experiences together with somebody else, it's it, I don't know. It's just so neat to to see the Savior at work both of your lives at the same time yeah and it.

Peggy:

It's funny that you mentioned that, because another experience that just came to my mind was with my daughter, where, huge, I saw the savior in my life and in hers. She, um, I'm sorry, it's okay, maybe I won't let her listen to this or I won't tell her about it, because she might not like that. I'm just talking about her, but she is, I don't know.

Peggy:

She has been she's been protected like you were when you were a baby and I just I in my life I, I guess, because she's my only daughter we just have a connection that I love and then, through her, my connections with my granddaughters. It's like you see that eternal perspective through these things. But when she was going to college she had this feeling to go and be a nanny for one year back East, and so she was I'm going to take one year off of college and go and do this. And she went and was in Virginia and was having a great experience. And she came home for winter break and while she was home for winter break she had met friends while she was in Virginia and some of them were from Utah too. So she went with one of the friends that she had met there to go skiing, yeah, and she fell and like broke her femur.

Peggy:

We got a phone call and it's like I think I broke my femur and they had already given her medication so she was a little loopy a little, and my oldest son, who is a nurse at the time wasn't a nurse yet but is now, but has worked in the hospital knows a lot about medical stuff yeah, said morgan, said she broke her femur.

Peggy:

He goes oh no, no, that can't be right, because that's, that's intense and the the medical person with her got on the phone and said yes, she broke her femur. We're taking her to the trauma center if you want to meet us there. And so we went and met them there. Obviously she had to have a rod put in her femur. Yeah, and we, you know, stayed at the hospital with her. But she was just in and out and out of it on medications and they told us you know, she's just going to be on medication and be sleeping through the night. You guys are good to go. And I didn't feel like I needed to stay for any reason at the hospital and so we went home and back the next day and she said she goes. Oh man, I woke up in the middle of the night and was in so much pain and I kind of felt that mom guilt. It's like, oh, heavenly Father, why didn't you tell me that she would need?

Lily:

help during the night.

Peggy:

Yeah, and then later she wore her testimony about that experience and talked about how that night being by herself kind of forced her to turn to the Savior and she repeated in her mind a hymn over and over and felt like the Savior. She could feel the Savior carrying her through that night. Savior carrying her through that night and helping her through that night. Yeah, and when she bore her testimony about this, she started with Okay, mom, I don't want you to feel guilty at all because I needed you to not be there to kind of force me to turn to the Savior. And that was one thing that strengthened my again testimony in our Savior Jesus Christ. He was there for my daughter when I wasn't, and I didn't need to feel guilty that I wasn't there for her because she was in better hands than mine, right With our Savior Jesus Christ, with their helping her.

Lily:

Right. I think that's so comforting. Just as a mom myself and anybody listening who's a parent is, you try. I love how you kind of like the parent guilt right. Like you always, parents are always trying so hard. Like cause you want to give the kids. You want to give your kid the best life possible, set them up for success as much as you can, but at the end of the day it's between them and the Lord. Like you can teach them all the right things, you can try and do your very best, but you know he's always there for them. He's the one that can always be there when you can't.

Lily:

And and I think it's nice if we as parents can truly understand that. I think it was Uchtdorf, like a couple of conferences ago, gave that talk. You know, jesus Christ is the strength for the strength of parents, right, or something like that that when we are able to have the faith and the trust that he is there not just for us but in the lives of our children, that can bring us the peace and the reassurance right To know that, okay, the person that I love so much and the most in the world has someone even better than me behind them and has got their back. So that's really cool.

Peggy:

And he'll let us know the things we need to do, If there are things that he needs to step in and be his hands and to help with he'll let us know, because I've had experiences with my kids.

Peggy:

Yeah, yeah, with that where, where I've just been prompted hey, go take a walk with your son and bring this subject up. That I've been avoiding because every time I'd borrowed it before it brought contention, and that time when I had the prompting and I had to have it a few times, sometimes it's like no, no, no, I've been there, done that and been burned.

Lily:

I'm not gonna.

Peggy:

I don't want to cause contention, I don't want to go there, I don't want to cause a fight. But I know that when I have repeated thoughts over and over to do something, that I need to do it, and I finally listened and it was a positive thing, it was a good thing, it was, it was what needed to happen at that time. I just needed to wait and be patient for the right time. It's hard sometimes to be patient, but it is.

Lily:

I'm still learning that lesson. Wah, wah, we'll get there. That's so cool. Are there any other? Any other stories that you had that you might, that you thought you might want to share?

Peggy:

you know I I have so many stories. I, um, I have seen the Lord's hand when we moved to Utah. It was hard to leave Idaho. I, I had we were living not too far from where my mom, my sisters lived and had a brother that still lived there, and when we came to Utah I really had a hard time at first. The very first summer that we moved here I like went through depression. It's like I do not. I really doubted Is this really where I am supposed to be? Because things weren't working out the way I wanted. I had started working in the library in elementary school a couple of years before we moved to Utah and I wanted to do that and like applied for jobs. I drove from Idaho to Utah for interviews before we even moved here because I just was looking online and applying.

Peggy:

I wanted to do that so bad and I felt like that was where I belonged. Yeah, but nothing worked out the first year that we were here and I just like I left my family behind the job that I loved and things aren't working out, and I didn't feel like I. You know I'm not great at opening up. When we moved from Idaho, my Relief Society president there told me don't sit in the back and make people wait to get to know you. But it's hard for me not to just sit in the back.

Lily:

So I think a lot of people can relate to that we were in a new neighborhood where there weren't a lot of houses yet.

Peggy:

We were like the fourth or fifth house that was built, so somewhere where it didn't have a lot of neighbors yet. Yeah, but I tried and I but it was hard and I went through times when I really really had a lot of doubt if this is where we were supposed to be, if it was great for my kids. Our oldest son struggled and would get, you know, angry about us taking away from his life that he had in Idaho because he was a junior in high school and it's hard, that's rough for him and for other kids.

Peggy:

they they adjusted fairly well, but I had a lot of doubts and then, with patience, you know things, and Heavenly Father, I could see his hand in my life, leading me to where I needed to be. It didn't you know? Yeah, maybe it didn't happen the first year, but I was dropping my kids off at junior high and I had this thought over and over, like the Spirit speaks to me. You know, go stop at the elementary school and look into volunteering at their library. None of your interviews worked out, but just keep trying, don't give up. Yeah, and so I stopped by the school. Can I go talk to the librarian Because I want to volunteer, to get to know you know, know the system here.

Peggy:

Each school district is different. I want to see how things are around here. They're like oh well, she's on medical leave right now and I thought, okay, why did you feel like in my brain, doubting this, thought that I had to go to this school, she's not here, but why? It's like, well, I used to work at the library in Idaho, I'd like to do it again. I feel like it's where I belong and I just had the thought to come and volunteer at this school.

Peggy:

And one of the ladies in the office says oh, I just saw online there was a library job listed and I had been religiously looking for jobs, but it was a time of the year when you wouldn't see expect jobs to be posted and I hadn't been checking recently. And I went and looked and it was the last day that the job was posted. If I wouldn't have gone to that school on that day, I wouldn't have found out. And it was a job I'd applied for before but didn't get an interview and so and I'm not very aggressive, but I thought I'm going to email this principal. So I looked online now I'm not the principal I emailed and said I just want to introduce myself. Last year I applied for this job and I don't know why they hired someone last year, but it was posted again the next year. I said hopefully this year I can at least get an interview and get to meet you you know, congratulations.

Peggy:

You were confident.

Lily:

Yeah, not really confident, but tried the lord gave you that strength, all these things that push the thought.

Peggy:

You know, maybe email him and these things would not be something I would naturally do. So I know they were from heavenly father and I got a phone call the next day come in for an interview. And at the interview, you know, at the end he's like can I just walk you around the library and let me know your thoughts? And they offered me the job. And I did not know anyone at this school. It was a school in Orem, not even close to where we lived, but I was willing to drive, yeah, and because I just felt like, okay, this worked out the way it should. Yep, I feel like this is where I'm supposed to be, even though I don't know why. I don't know anyone. And I met some of my closest friends there and I don't work at that school anymore. I've since gone and I work at this other Liberty Hills now, but I still am in contact with some of the teachers there.

Peggy:

And at the end of my first year I asked the principal why did you hire me? You didn't know me. Yeah, from any you know at all. I didn't know anyone at the school. You totally were taking a risk. And he said you know what? I just felt like you were supposed to be for this job and I found out after I got hired. When I was setting up the library, someone came into the library and jokingly said so you're the one that took my job and found out. It wasn't really joking like they. They had anticipated getting offering the job to this other person that worked at the school and, um, later in the year they said you know what I feel like you are supposed to be here. I'm glad that it worked out the way it did.

Peggy:

I would have loved to have worked in the library, but so it's funny how the Lord works and how if we're just patient and if we listen for those promptings and follow them, that he'll lead us to where he wants us to be. And I, it was hard to leave that school because it was like my family leaving my family behind, kind of my school family, yeah, the people I had gotten close to.

Lily:

But Out of your comfort zone. Yeah, but you found new family, you found new friends. Yeah, like, I think that's the funnest thing, at least, on all the little random adventures God's taken me on, I always end up meeting at least one person that I'm like, okay, I needed to know you, I needed to meet you. And I could say, like we, I have. I kind of call them like little chapters in my life and my little story. Right, and in each part of my story there's always at least one person that I'm like, okay, had I not been in this one place at this one time, I would not have met you and my life would be a completely different. Yeah, Right, you do.

Lily:

Really, god really does lead us to people that not only impact our lives but we can impact their lives and just the people around us. Like it's insane how he, he's able to have this aerial view and move his and move his little pieces where he knows that we go best. That's right, right, and just build these networks in these communities that are strong. Right, because he knows like, okay, once this bond's made, it's a friendship for life, right, yeah, and it's. And I don't know, and even even when people, I don't talk to my friends as much like when we were living in Virginia. I still have a lot of friends back there and we and we keep in touch.

Lily:

But it is those kinds of friendships where you get back together and you're like all right, it's like nothing happened, we're back to we're back to where we are and let's just keep going Right, and I feel really blessed to have those in my life, so it's really cool that you've been able to experience that too. Yeah.

Peggy:

Yeah, and I think that if we just let God guide us, he'll lead us to the people and the places that we need to be. Yeah, you know, I felt I was supposed to be at that school when we moved here to Lehigh and kind of downsized and moved close to that new elementary school that was being built. I had no intention of going to the new school and when we were first moving there it was being built. I didn't even realize it was a school. And when I found out and other people are like, oh, are you going to try and transfer to this school, when they found that I worked in Orem, right, it's like no, orem is my family, I'm supposed to be there. I know that's where I'm supposed to be and someone's like well, that's where you're supposed to be for the last 11 years and there were connections there.

Peggy:

But maybe you moved to this area because you're supposed to be at this new school. When I looked at it like that and I prayed about it and thought about it and you just had confirmation yes, you've moved, you have a new opportunity. You have a new opportunity and I um knew that there were awesome, wonderful librarians that were applying for that job also and I felt really, really like an imposter like you don't really belong here kind of thing you're old, these other new younger more fun people but I, when once I felt like, oh, maybe this is something I'm supposed to do.

Peggy:

Yeah, let's give it a shot and try our best, it was easy. It was easy to put myself again out of my comfort zone. I, you know the principal after I interviewed he took several weeks to decide and I just kept. I, I wasn't annoying, but if persistent, if I had a thought or a prompting or something like.

Peggy:

For instance, there was a like he he was very organized and had a certain specific plan that he shared with everyone. He he gave you a booklet that tells about these are this is my vision for the school and all this. And as I read that and he quoted things from a certain book and it's like I'm going to go get that book and read the book. And then I emailed him, said, hey, I got this book that you had quoted from and thank you for putting that quote in there. I hadn't heard of this book and and I think he told me, I was the only person really that kept in contact with him. And at the end of the interview he said if you have questions or anything, please reach out. So he invited us to do that.

Peggy:

Yeah, and I only did it a couple of times, but he, at the end, when he offered me the job, he said you're the only person that reached out to me. When I said you reach out if you have any questions or let me know. And one of the things I shared was you know, thank you for this process, even if I don't get the job, I feel like I'm a better person and I'm re-energized to do, you know, new ideas for my new job or at the new school, at the school that I'm currently at? If I don't get this job, I have ideas at my new school, things I might start implementing, because you got the ball rolling by asking me about certain things.

Peggy:

Yeah and um, that's cool, because I went to that school, I was led to move to, you know, I don't know and it's all connected, man, yeah yeah, we, we go to church together, you and I, and so you know who I am and how I got there, and it's because of people that I met there. So I see Heavenly Father needed me to be in our ward where we're at, to do things in this neighborhood where I live. But I couldn't get here without meeting Kim at this new school that I was at, so I needed to go from my old school to my new school to meet Kim, who told who led me here, and it's just all.

Peggy:

it's cool to see how Heavenly Father's hand is in our life across the board and how, like you mentioned before, how we can be his hands too and be involved.

Lily:

Right, wow, that's amazing. I don't. I'm not having any other thoughts come to my mind, so are there any other stories that you'd like to share or are there any other final thoughts like how are you, how are you feeling at this point?

Peggy:

as I read over different resources and things that you kind of sent to us about remembering christ. I have so many notes but I just feel like it's so important to where they mentioned that our Heavenly Father knows things about us that we don't want others to know. That was from one of the talks, and he loves us still. I think that's so important. I'm a little bit older now and so I can tell these stories and it might sound like oh man, she has had just a wonderful, spirit-filled life and Heavenly Fathers led her all the way.

Peggy:

But I've had my challenges and there have been times in my life when there have been things that I would not. If I could go back, that I would change things that I had done. But now I think that's made me who I am and it helped me to realize that, despite the things that I've done wrong, my Heavenly Father loves me still. The things that I've done wrong, my Heavenly Father loves me still, and it can give me that same perspective in that when there are others that maybe I'm having a hard time feeling love towards, if I remember, my Heavenly Father knows everything that I've done, which I deeply know. I am far from perfect and he still loves me that it's important to extend love to others.

Peggy:

I had my mom and two of my siblings come this weekend spend a couple of days, and we had the opportunity to go to the Tabernacle on Temple Square broadcasts for Easter. Wow, like the easter songs that they did and it was such a powerful reminder of our savior and what he's done for us and both of his siblings that came to visit are going through really hard things right now Totally different circumstances but really really hard things. In that broadcast it helped me to remember that, no matter what we're going through, that our Savior is always there for us and he loves us unconditionally and that we can have hope through him. I'm grateful for him and for the sacrifice that he's made in our behalf.

Lily:

That's awesome. Well, I've really enjoyed getting to know you better, as we've been talking and hearing your testimony and so much of the stuff that you've said is you know for me and I know I've seen it in my life. Um, if there are no other thoughts that you have, would you just mind leaving us with the testimony?

Peggy:

I would love to share my testimony. Thank you, I am so grateful. I know that we have a heavenly father that loves us individually. Like I've mentioned throughout my experiences, I've seen his hand in my life, heavenly Father, that loves us individually. Like I've mentioned throughout my experiences, I've seen his hand in my life. He has led me to do things that I would not have done on my own. He's given me experiences that I've needed to carry me through hard times.

Peggy:

I know that we have a Savior that loves us, that has felt every pain and sorrow that we have felt and that we can turn to, that will always be there for us to help us through those hard things. And he's also felt the joy. He wants us to have joy. He did what he did so we can have joy in this life, and he wants to experience the joy also. So I think it's important to try to find the joy in life, even when things might be hard. If we look for for our Heavenly Father's hand in our lives, if we look, it will be there and that can help us to have joy.

Peggy:

I'm grateful for and I know that we have the opportunity to be with our families forever. I'm grateful for temples. I know that we can find peace and comfort there and that we can strengthen our relationship with our Savior, jesus Christ, through going to the temple and the scriptures reading the scriptures I'm not always the best at doing that, as well as I should, but I know that when I do, I can see a definite benefit that I have in my life from reading the scripture. I know this gospel is true. I feel so blessed that I've had it throughout all of my life, and there have been times in my life when I've taken it for granted. But even when I didn't turn to the Lord as much as I should, he was always there waiting for me. So I know that he's always there and waiting for us to turn to him and that he loves us unconditionally, no matter what we have done in our lives. And these are the things that I know are true, and I say them in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Lily:

Amen. Thank you, peggy, for being here today, and I really appreciate all that you do for us, so thanks, thank you. Thank you for having me. Thanks again for tuning in to More Than Coincidence, remembering Jesus Christ in your story. Please follow us on social media or share us with a friend. If you have an experience you'd like to share, feel free to reach out to morethancoincidencerememberhim at gmailcom. I can't wait to hear all of the amazing memories you all have of our Savior. See you next time.