Welcome to This is the Gospel and LDS Living Podcast where we feature real stories from real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Lee.

God speaks to each of us in totally different ways and I think part of our spiritual work in this life is to figure out how he talks to you and how he wants you to talk back.

This week's story comes from Brittany who learned to recognize and listen to God's guidance as she faced her fears and followed his path for her all the way across the world to Morocco.

We spoke to Brittany on her last visit home and our producer, David Johnson's going to help Brittany tell the story. Here's Brittany.

One of my friends said, if God loves you, he will take you to a desert. Like if you look at the Israelites when they left captivity in Egypt, he took them to the desert.

If you look at the Mormon pioneers, he took them to Utah, which is a desert. Right? And he took me away from everything that I knew and he put me in a desert.

And I think that he did that because he knew that he could talk to me there.

Brittany originally wanted to be a singer, but her patriarchal blessing helped her realize she might have a calling to serve in cultures that are not her own, especially working with people who have been displaced by circumstances beyond their control.

After eight years working with migrants and refugees in Salt Lake City, Brittany developed a deep love for this population seeking refuge in a new start.

Two years ago, she felt led by God to a job opportunity in Morocco with an international humanitarian organization.

She thought she knew how God could use her skills and experience, but after completing initial training in country, she was surprised when her assigned placement took her in a different direction.

I had three hopes. My hope was to stay near the Capitol because the church was in the Capitol and I could go to church and I had asked the people that placed that would place me to please keep me in a robot very religious purposes.

The second goal was that I wanted I had asked God, please help me stay in a region where I can help refugees and migrants because that is my skill set.

And my third request was convenience. I said, please keep me in a place that's near the major cities like Costa Blanca or America, so that I can get Doritos or be them butter.

Or like, you know, things like that. And I had told my supervisors this. I had prayed about this. I had fasted about this. I said, God, you sent me here. Please show yourself now.

So the morning that I got my placement, I opened my folder and it said, congratulations. Your placement is 10 hours away in a village of a thousand people who are the Amazir tribe.

You will be speaking Moroccan Arabic and Amazir. And I was like, God, you didn't keep your promise. Why are you sending me away from the church? Like, you know I need church. Like you're sending me 10 hours away from church.

Like, I like, what am I going to do out there? There's no refugees or migrants out there. And I'm not going to get peanut butter.

So I write my supervisor saying, hey, I need to be near my church. I, you know, this village is so small. Like, so I said, how can I move to a different village?

He said, if there's a security issue or if there's a medical issue, he's like, have you gotten hurt? It's somebody like her ass you and I'm like, I wish. I never

planned it got to be like, please just let me get in a car accident. Please just let like some guy like still my purse from you. So I can have a security incident.

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