Knowing the Whisper of the Holy Ghost
Annette Nay, Ph.D.

We had just moved into our home in Grafton, Virginia. We hadn’t had time to explore the area yet since our unpacking. I had an appointment to my new obstetrician. My husband drove me there and said he would wait for me.

When I finished my appointment, my husband was not there, so I decided to walk in the direction that we had come. It was a beautiful day and I thought the exercise would do me good.

After I had walked a few blocks, the thought came to me that I should go back to the doctor’s office parking lot. That my husband was waiting for me. I brushed the thought away, thinking I had a wild imagination, as we had always come and gone the same way, because it was the only way we knew.

At the end of the next block, the thought came again. I though the intense sun must be playing tricks with my mind. Finally, at the end of the fourth block a jolting clear thought came, “Go back, now!” I knew at that moment that it was not my mind, but someone else. It so shook me that I immediately turned and went back. There was my husband waiting for me. He had been checking out the area and had come back shortly after I left.

When we arrived home I went out to check our goat as I had for the last few days, because she was ready to deliver. To my horror, the kid had just been born and suffocated, because the sac was over its face. If I had just been there a few minutes sooner, I could have assisted the kid and it would have been alright. If I had listened to the Holy Ghost, I would have been there, but I didn’t know it was him.

The very next week I was called on to substitute in a Primary class. The subject of the lesson shocked me. It was on knowing the prompting of the Holy Ghost. In that lesson I learned that the Holy Ghost will continue to prompts us until we have made a firm choice not to do what he has told us to do. I wished I had taught the lesson the week before.