Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.