Week 10

One thing that stuck out to me in our readings and videos was the article by Elder Dallin H. Oaks on “The Challenge to Become.” He says that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan by which we can become what children of God are supposed to be come. He continues to say that we have to continually be steady in our keeping our covenants, ordinances, actions, making right choices, and continuing repentance to have a spotless and perfected state. I like the scripture he shares along with this in Alma 34:32 where it says, “This life is the time for men to prepare to meet God.” This whole phrase of him talking about what we are to become is all through the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that is the challenge is whether we are going to continue in keeping our covenants with God. I also liked how he says how we should all be working toward our own personal conversion and how important that is. Elder Oaks talks about the process of conversion and how the gospel challenges us to be converted to testify the to the truthfulness of the gospel. A lot of good principles in this article that stuck out to me. One other video that stuck out to me was the video of Kathy Huber. She was one of the first women who graduated from MIT in the 1960s and how she had to keep going and not let anyone tell her that she can’t graduate or be going to school there. She talked about the type of tenacity and perseverance she had to have to continue her degree. I am looking forward to learning and experiencing more about being able to dream and thinking big. Whatever it is that we think is what we are and what we can become.