“Hearing the Holy Ghost,” Friend, August 2023, 21.
Hearing the Holy Ghost
Illustration by Xavier Bonet
Last summer, my family went on a hike. The trail led to a stream. My older sister, my younger brother, and I took off our shoes and walked into the water.
When the water was a little past my knees, we stopped. We saw a group of older kids playing in deeper water up ahead. My sister smiled and said, “We should go deeper!”
But a voice in my head told me to stay back with my little brother. I knew that it was the Holy Ghost. I told my sister that she could go check it out, but my little brother and I would stay.
When my sister got back, she said the water was really rough and hard to walk in. When she said that, I knew I had made the right choice to stay safe with my little brother.