How do our young women know Heavenly Father loves them?
My dear friend is the Primary president in our ward. She knew I had a busy schedule, but she had no idea about the call I had just received. She called me that next Sunday morning and said, “I need a substitute for the 11- and 12-year-old girls. I know you are too busy right now to do this, but the Spirit just keeps telling me to ask you.” I couldn’t tell her then how profoundly grateful I was for that privilege. I wanted to see the faces of the girls, to feel their spirits, and to know of their testimonies, to understand them, to know what their challenges were, and especially to know if they knew and how they knew that Heavenly Father loved them. This was the perfect opportunity. I asked the girls when I taught them how they knew Heavenly Father loved them; and they were quite reluctant to respond out loud, so I had them write their thoughts on a paper. As they were writing, they muttered such things as, “This is hard,” and “I don’t know if I do know.” Then at my first good opportuni
