Does God answer prayer?

In life there are always so many things I just want to know!

There are so many questions I want to ask and so many things I just want to understand.

My guess is I am not alone in these desires :) 

I am sure everyone who ever lived wanted to know something sometime ;)

The point of this post is that God wants us to receive answers to these deep desires.

why?
Because He loves us :)

There is a young man in the Book of Mormon named Nephi.

His Father is a Prophet and God reveals many marvelous things to him.

Nephi (the son) wants to know the deeper meaning of the things his father is telling him.

So, what does he do? 

He kneels down to pray and asks God his questions.

This is where most of us stop and say

"Wait a second! God does not answer my questions! I totally tried once!" 

(cough talking from experience cough)

Luckily I kept reading and this is what I found.

Nephi asked God his questions expecting an answer.

Guess what happens next??

God asks Nephi "What desirest thou?"

Aka He asks Nephi to be specific.

We cant just go to God saying:

"Help me! Help me! Help me!" 

Because He is probably saying 

"I would love to! When and how?"
Or if we go to Him saying
"I want to know!"
He is probably saying
"Great! What do you want to know?"
The Book of Mormon chapter I am quoting is 1 Nephi 11 
In the end of this chapter Nephi receives his answer.
 He also receives an undeniable witness that Jesus is the Christ the  Son of God born to Mary.
I am sure that answer was more than He expected.
When we ask specific questions believing we will receive God will not only answer us but He will do it in a way that we cant imagine.
God knows us perfectly.
He knows what we need before we ask.
Please let us ask.

(God knew I needed to meet this woman plus we have the same birthday!)