Just the day before December last year, 2016,  I remember feeling down. I felt that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't receive answers to my prayers.  I felt lonely, sad, and on the brink of giving up.  My family was talking about the importance of being faithful in the church's December activity of Light the World.  My phone kept buzzing with messages of them talking about what they were going to do and everyone agreeing to do their very best.  I sat on my bed and watched the video.  The spirit was so strong.  I truly felt that if I did Light the World everyday, faithfully, and with a prayer in my heart then God would bless my efforts.  I knelt on my bed and prayed with my heart telling Heavenly Father my plan and my willingness to do it and the testimony I felt.
The next day it began.  That day and everyday after that I can honestly say that I faithfully served someone.  My acts of service ranged from showing someone how to get to a bus, doing my roommates dishes, driving someone to the airport, going to the temple, or calling my parents.  It changed me personally.  I saw service as something to do with a smile and that it is important to do it daily.
A week before Christmas President Eyring spoke in my home ward.  He stated, "I testify that God knows the prayers in your hearts.  I know that He listens and answers them.  I also know that if we go about our day in the spirit of service that we will see our blessings and know those answers." To me that was a testimony to what I had already felt.  I knew that what I was doing was right.  I knew that God was going to answer me.
Throughout the month of December I started seeing the answer to my prayer, but it wasn't quite confirmed until January and as the world gets hard I have to remember that it was an answer to my prayer and that everything will work out, with continued faithfulness.
I know that God answers our prayers.  I know that He will always listen to us.  I also know that we must always do our part, we can't just pray to be healthy without working out.
Matthew 21:22
"And all things, whatsoever, ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."  
Take a leap of faith.  Keep a prayer in your hearts.  Do your part, and all things shall work for your good.  God wants to help us, but He also wants to hear us.  Imagine a child who never says a word to his father.  Everyday they walk by each other never saying hello, but every night the father leaves a present for the child.  It doesn't quite work that way. Talk to our Father and let Him know what troubles us, or what we need help with, and what we are thankful for.