By Laura Curtis

While taking the Mindset Mastery Course and learning about inconsequential goals, I realized I wasn’t asking for things in my life as often as I could. One day, as I prepared to facilitate a lesson for Relief Society, these verses stood out to me again:

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; …and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

I thought to myself, I really want a yoke—something tangible, a visual reminder of His promise to me. I told my husband, and he laughed, asking what other farm equipment I wanted to display in our home. But I was serious. I wrote it down, visualized it hanging on my wall beneath one of my favorite pictures of Christ, and was filled with an overwhelming sense of love, gratitude, and peace.

One day, while out on a walk, I saw several yokes hanging on the side of a shed. Just seeing them made me smile. I knew my yoke was coming. I was tempted to search antique stores, but I resisted. I trusted it would come in the right way, at the right time, without me having to chase it.

Weeks passed, and I wondered when and how it would arrive. I pushed out doubt and fear. I heard of others in my class who saw their inconsequential goals manifest quickly—even the same day. I chose to be happy for them and not feel insecure or like I was doing something wrong. I kept believing my yoke was coming.

Four weeks after setting my goal, I was in Arizona with my mother-in-law, helping clean out her parents’ home after her mother passed away. In their office, on a bookshelf, sat a teacup and saucer. I picked it up, ready to pack it for donation, when I really looked at it—and nearly fell over. I’d been imagining a full-scale yoke, but this was something else entirely. On the saucer, there was a picture of a yoke at the top and bottom, and on the sides, a plow with a churn in the center. It was a humble, even ugly little saucer—but to me, it was perfect.

Life isn’t always easy. Though our burdens are made light, they aren’t always taken away. We must get through them. We must plow the ground for those perfect seeds we plant, so they can grow, spring forth, and bear fruit. This little saucer means the world to me.

I love that I was able to practice the Law of Gestation—that every seed has an incubation period. Once placed in the right environment, it begins to develop and eventually matures.

Leslie Householder reminds us,

“Remember, all we need is already in the Universe all around us.”

I kept believing and moved forward in faith, resisting the urge to pull out my “seed” because it seemed ridiculous or impossible. My loving Heavenly Father knew there was a small green and white saucer with a yoke on it that I wanted—I just needed to be in the right place at the right time to receive it.

I love how my goal was answered. I love that it came from my husband’s grandparents. And I love that it arrived exactly as it should—just the right way, at just the right time, for me.