So, 1 Ne 2:16 "having great desires to know of the mysteries of God, wherefore, I did cry unto the Lord; and behold he did visit me, and did soften my heart that I did believe all the words..."
The idea of having a soft heart is interesting to me, stems from a desire and comes from the Lord, and leads to faith. Broken heart and contrite spirit. I want a soft heart! I want to have faith like the brother of Jared. I need to find more examples of that sort of faith, and maybe I should memorize some of Ether 3 to internalize it better.
In institute today Brother Weed talked about how sometimes even if we are keeping the commandments we might not have the Spirit with us all the time. This is a test to see if we will be faithful even without constant support. If we keep going through that, the Spirit will surely return. I can't think of any scriptures about this off the top of my head but I believe that it is a true principle, and I think I've heard some of the general authorities talk about this. I need to find some specific talks about it. I think I experience this sometimes, not for long periods of time because I actually feel the Spirit very frequently but sometimes I feel like I pray to be feeling the right things and it just doesn't come and I need to kind of struggle for a while.
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