05/05/2026
“Motherhood has been beautiful but also a lot different than I thought it would be. I imagined myself being the one leading.
“But a lot of the time, I feel like I’m just trying to keep up with my daughter. When we first came to church, I wasn’t looking for anything big. I just needed a place to sit and pray, somewhere quiet where I could breathe. But it wasn’t quiet at all. It was full of people, families…and I remember thinking, this isn’t what I came for. I wanted quiet!
“But my daughter loved it.
“She was only four, and she kept asking, ‘Mom, can we go back?’ I didn’t understand. I’d tell her we could go somewhere easier, somewhere she could just play, like a park. But she would say, ‘No, I want to be at church.’
“At home, she started reminding me to pray. She’d bring me the scriptures and say, ‘Come sit with me.’ Sometimes she would pray out loud, and I would just listen. The way she talked about Jesus Christ, it was so simple, but it felt so real. Like she knew Him.
“I was the one who was scared. I worried about changing my life, about what it meant, about what I might lose. But she never made it complicated. She just trusted Him. And slowly, I started to trust Him too.
“I started to feel something I hadn’t felt before: peace. Like the Savior really saw me, like He knew I was trying, even when I didn’t feel like I could do it.
“As a mom, you want to give your child everything good. And now, when I look at her, I feel so grateful she’s growing up knowing Him. Knowing His love. Knowing she’s never alone.
“I still teach her the small day-to-day things, getting ready for school, brushing her hair, all of that. But the bigger things…faith, trust, turning to the Savior…I think I’m learning those from her.
“I thought I was the one leading her to Christ.
“But I think, in a lot of ways…He sent her to lead me.” —Saina
