"We can so live that we can call upon the Lord for his protection and guideance... We cannot expect His help if we are unwilling to keep his commandments."
-President Hinckley
One of my really good friends loves to go running with me on the BYU outdoor track. We ran quite frequently at the beginning of the school year and slowly quit without much time. One afternoon after our classes were out, we were both free for once and decided to run around the block. We ran up past the temple and back. While we were running, I noticed that I wasn’t feeling very well. I hadn’t been getting very much sleep that week because I was so busy with homework but still kept running at my fastest pace. I was excited to finish the run and pushed through till we made it back to campus housing where my friend lived. She invited me to eat with her at the Cannon center and for some reason I felt like I needed to go with her. We went to her dorm to change before we left for dinner. While I was waiting for my friend to get ready I started feeling very sick again. Suddenly everything around me looked like a fuzzy TV screen. I knew that my friend was talking to me but the words weren’t registering in my mind. After standing there for a minute I told her that I needed to sit down. She got me a water bottle and I was finally able to see and hear again. She told me that I had been starring off into space and wasn’t responding to the questions she was asking me. If I hadn’t sat down I probably would have passed out. I am glad I listened to the prompting to go to dinner with my friend. If I hadn’t, I could have passed out while I was driving back to my apartment and gotten in an accident. I am so grateful that I was in tune with the Holy Ghost that afternoon.
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