Radiology and Prayer

For the last 8 months I have been going through the interview process to get into the Radiology program here at the hospital. I have also been praying about the whole thing everyday. I told Heavenly Father "if this is where you want me to be put me in if not I move on. As the process went on I was called to be the seminary teacher in our ward, I have grown to love this calling and knew that if I got in the radiology program I would be unable to teach seminary, which made me really sad. But I decided to wait and see how my prayers would be answered. Slowly I got selected for the last interview and I knew my answer would arrive soon and it did. I recieved a regret letter in my e-mail, but it said that I was choosen as the first alternate. I weighed my chances and I thought they were pretty good but I decided not to dwell on it. I thought this must be my answer.
Then two weeks later I got another e-mail that said:

Dear Glenda,

Actually, we just found out a few minutes ago that
one of the students invited to attend the school
has decided to decline entering the school.

We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected for admission to the Winchester Medical Center’s School of Radiologic Technology. The program start date is June 28.

School starts Monday, June 28th and goes through that
week. We will have off the week of July 5 – 9 and then school
will get into full swing on Monday, July 12th.

Congratulations and best wishes!


DJ Turnock
Program Assistant
Medical Radiography Program
220 Campus Blvd. Suite 300
Winchester, VA 22601

So I thought "I guess Heavenly Father does want me to go to school."
Now this program is like having a full time job and going to school, plus nights and weekends on occasion. My husband said he would help me and I found someone to watch my kids over the summer. So everything was pretty much set and I was very excited. And I thought Heavenly Father has answered my prayers.
So in the mean time I thought it would be a good idea to fast and pray about it the following fast sunday, so I could feel the peace of knowing everything was going to work out. And so I did and something amazing happened.....I wokeup the next day feeling like I didn't want to do this at all. So I talked to my husband, and he was a little confused, so I told him "I must be tired, maybe I will feel different tomorrow". So I wokeup the next day and the same feeling came over me, so now I'm thinking, "let me give it the rest of the week just to make sure." The feelings didn't change all week. The Lord made it so clear as to what he wanted me to do. I have never felt so much power and clarity in my prayers as I did at this time.
It's funny how fast things can change. I felt all the stress leave that I have been carrying over the last 8 months. I will still be teaching seminary in the fall and feel so very blessed in doing so.
And I can be the mom and keep that most sacred role and that is more important then the radiology program.
They say when someone in your family serves a mission you are blessed, my parents are serving a mission in Guam and I can truely feel the blessings of their service in my life.