I just wanted to share a quick experience I had the other day. I went to a scheduled ministering visit with a less active sister in our ward. She has eight children and was coming to church alone with seven of them (pregnant with the eight) while her husband was away at basic training. We haven't seen her at church in a long time so as a Relief Society Presidency member, I was asked to check in with her. She opened up to me a little bit and told me her husband is going through a faith crisis and that as she has looked into some of the things he has concerns about, she has concerns as well. She said she isn't coming to church until she makes more sense of the things she's been reading. She said she did think about coming alone but doesn't want to take the kids and isn't even sure about coming by herself. Standing there on her front porch, I felt prompted to say the following, "Rather than worrying about what this thing online says or what this person from church says, make it a matter of prayer. Make it about your relationship with Heavenly Father, personal revelation and what The Spirit teaches you about it." I told her about a talk I heard in General Conference a while back and the speaker (I don't recall who) encouraged us to doubt our doubts before we doubt our faith. I felt the Spirit as I said these things to her and hope she did as well. One thing I wish I had said that I will take as a learning experience for the next time I'm in this situation is that there is no shame in questioning.
