Patience

I tend to procrastinate, especially things I don't like doing. Writing is one of those things and writing about patience is definitely one of those things! I have no great insight on patience, it is something I have to work on everyday and I find while I master it one area I have none of it in another. It is something that has to be worked on everyday, I am never done trying to be patient. President Uchtdorf gave an amazing talk on Patience in the April 2010 Priesthood session of General Conference entitled "Continue in Patience"

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/continue-in-patience?lang=eng&query=continue+patience

Really I have nothing of value to add to that but I will share one experience. A few years back I received a blessing from my Father in Law. We were just begining Fertility treatments with a doctor in LA. He had told us we were an easy case, 3-6 months we should be pregnant. No problem. In this blessing I was told that Heavenly Father desired for me to have more children, that there was a path for me to have more children and to be PATIENT. It was a great blessing and I felt peace after it but also a tinge of frustration at that word patient, I knew this wasn't going to be as easy as the doctor said. That very next day I recieved my first test in patience when I received a call from my doctor's office with results from some blood work that they had done. My HIV test came back inconclusive! HA Seriously!? Seriously!! I was a have to admit I was a little amused as I found myself telling my doctor who was trying to reasure me that it was probably nothing this happens sometimes that I was in fact not concerned at ALL but a little frustrated that I had to wait 6-8 weeks before they would test me again. (FYI my test did come back negative:) This was the first of many set backs that has tried my patience over the last few years. Between cyst's and my body not responding the right way to the hormones, just being on hormones,  (That was a good test for my husbands patience as well!) Or being out of town or my doctor being out of town. Or what was supposed to be an outpatient laperscopic surgery to have my fibroids removed turning into a nice c-section incission and 3-4 days in the hospital. Not to mention my personal favorite,  sitting in the famous LA traffic on my way up to my doctors office! 3 Hours! That was the longest it ever took me! But I know it is all a part of the lord's plan for me, his timing is perfect. As we trust in him we can have peace in the middle of whatever trial we are going through.