Receiving Answers to Our Prayers

We all need help from the Lord in every area of our lives, and one vital key to receiving that help is prayer. In Receiving Answers to Our Prayers, Elder Cook examines some of the most important principles and practices of prayer, which the Lord has taught us through scripture and through living prophets. By illustrating those principles through examples and many true-life stories, he shows that the Lord does answer prayers and suggests ways we can become more receptive to the answers the Lord sends. Elder Cook focuses on the difficult question of why answers do not always come in ways we expect and what we can do then to increase our faith.

Elder Gene R. Cook, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has served in various Church capacities, including area presidencies, as a regional representative, as a mission president in Uruguay and Paraguay, and as a member of the First Council of the Seventy. He graduated in business management and earned an MBA from Arizona State University. He has been an insurance consultant and an insurance agency manager, as well as a management consultant for various business firms. Elder Cook and his wife Janelle are parents of eight children and have fourteen grandchildren.