Sweet little Ava

So, it is so fun having a daughter.  I perceive that girls in general are more in touch with their sensitive side than the male counterpart.  A couple days ago, after getting home from work, I was in the bathroom.  Ava came in somewhat quietly and looked at me for a couple seconds and then said, "Dad, I love Heavenly Father and Jesus.  I feel them in my heart."  It almost made me cry.  I say almost, because I'm a guy.  But, if it was Nichole, she probably would have got emotional.  It made me feel good though.

I think this all stemmed from this past Sunday.  It was Fast Sunday, so there was the testimony meeting at church.  I was sitting up front so I am relating this in the third person since I did not have the privilege of sitting with my family.  There was a little primary aged girl that got up and told the ward that she had just moved into the ward.  Her dad was not with their family yet, but was going to be with them that afternoon.  The little girl had mentioned how much she missed her dad and was in tears after relating her story of missing him.  A few minutes later, one of the young women leaders got up.  Hilary Craner, who with her family, Ethan and I home teach, also got up and bore her testimony.  She related how this little girl missing her father was the same as us missing our Father in Heaven.  When Sr. Craner bore witness of that, Ava leaned over to Nichole and said, with tears running down her face, that she feels warm inside.  Nichole told her that she was feeling the Holy Ghost.  And, Ava told me all about it after I got home from church a few hours after church got out.  It was neat to hear your own child relate how they felt the Holy Ghost.