dogs, rabbits, and acorns.

today i heard the funniest story! it totally made me laugh. 


so there is this family and they have a pet dog. they live next to a family who has a pet rabbit. one day the mom is in the kitchen and the dog comes in, but with the neighbor's pet rabbit in his mouth. well, the mother and the family feel just horrible about it and don't really have the guts to tell their neighbors. so they decide to take the rabbit and fix it up. they clean off the blood, bathe it, dry it, brush out its hair, and then they put the rabbit back in its cage in their neighbor's backyard. well the next day the mother is outside and sees her neighbors all standing around the rabbit's cage. she goes over and asks, "is something wrong?" the father of the other family says, "well, we're not sure what happened. our rabbit died a few days ago but now we're trying to figure out how it got back in its cage." 


hahahah! :) :) isn't that funny?


i thought that was funny. maybe you've heard that before or could tell where it was going. i couldn't and so it was really funny for me.


our stake president's wife shared that story this morning at stake conference. our stake president also shared a short little story that i wanted to share that illustrates the principle of faith in a really interesting way. he said,


find a slow growing oak tree and take 2 acorns from the tree. then go and plant one. and then plant the other beside it, about 15 feet away from the first. and then, go out and buy a hammock. 


it's so simple, but i thought it illustrated beautifully the principle of faith. the person who buys the hammock has faith and knows the acorns will produce a tree, even though the process of having the acorn mature into a tree is a slow process, so slow it might seem on some days there is no growth at all--no sign that one day there will be a big tall tree standing over the spot where the acorn was planted. but that's what faith is--believing and remembering and then awaiting the miracle of growth.