My Faithful Girl

Today Rylynn was invited over for a playdate at a girl in our ward's house.  Since Carter and Rylynn are best friends, Carter just assumes that when Rylynn is invited for a playdate, he is too.  Luckily the friend didn't mind and let Carter stay for the play date as well as Rylynn.  They had a great time, but right before my friend was packing up the kids to drop them off, Carter had a collision with the screen door and got really scraped up.  He had tons of little scratches on his face and two bad gashes over his eye.

My friend was so worried when she dropped him off and felt sooo bad.  I reassured her that he was a toughy and he would be fine.  She said he really was tough and stopped crying pretty quickly.  So I took the kids inside and was looking at the cuts and cleaning the ones over his eye.(my friend had already cleaned them and bandaged them, but I am a freak and did it over again).  Anyway, while I was taking care of Carter and asking him about the whole situation Rylynn was standing right next to me and trying to comfort Carter.  Then she said, I know what to do to make him all better!"  Then she instantly fell to her knees on our cold, tile, kitchen floor and started saying a prayer asking Heavenly Father to help Carter's owie get all better.  It was so sweet and made me so happy to see that my daughter's first thought in a moment of sadness/fear/pain is to turn to her Heavenly Father in prayer.  This example is not unique.  She constantly does this and it never ceases to amaze me.  In fact, when we couldn't find her tooth on Saturday, right away, she said, "Let's say a prayer!"  She has such amazing faith.  If only we were all as humble and submissive and quick to turn towards our Father in our times of need as a little child.  Oh what a different world this would be.