Week 8

 I really love the video that was in this weeks studying. Elder Holland does a great job at describing stories and just the changes in his emotions really help with understanding and seeing the important things in each story. The story that he shared about trying to get across the country and only coming so far (34 miles) with so far to go (2400 miles) it shows that in this lifetime we have so far to go to eternal life and we have only come a short distance as of now. It shows that we need the correct tools or else we are not going to make it to our destination. The old man when he says that he could make it and his wife could but the car wouldn't helped me realize two things.
Number one it helped me realize that without the right tools we are only going to get to a certain point and not be able to progress forward. If we can't progress forward then what is the point of trying for anything else. We must have the right tools and equipment in order to progress and without those we will just be stuck in place without the ability to move forward.
The second thing that I realized is that we can have the right tools but they just may need an upgrading and without that upgrade they wills till be there for us and may still work but they wont be able to help us get all the way to the end. It kind of is the same thing for revelation. We have sufficient things now but God will give us things in the future to update our tools and lives and we must implement those in order to reach the end. 

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