"As you feel the need to confide in the Lord or to improve the quality of your visits with him - to pray, if you please - may I suggest a process to follow:

Go where you can be alone, go where you can think, go where you can kneel, go where you can speak out loud to him. The bedroom, the bathroom, or the closet will do.

Now, Picture him in your mind's eye. Think to whom you are speaking, control you thoughts - don't let them wander, address him as you Father and your friend.

Now tell him things you really feel to tell him - not trite phrases that have little meaning, but have a sincere, heartfelt conversation with him.

Confide in him, ask him for forgiveness, plead with him, enjoy him, thank him, express you love to him,

and then listen for his answers...Answers from the Lord come quietly - ever so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening so carefully or we will never recognize them. Most answers from the Lord are felt in out heart as a warm comfortable expression, or they may come as thought to our mind. They come to those who are prepared and who are patient" (Bishop H. Burke Peterson in Conference Report, Oct. 1973, p. 13; or Ensign, Jan. 1974, p. 19).