One Step Closer

Last night Dan & I completed our Temple Prep classes with Mike Strauss.  I couldn't help but to notice all throughout the classes that there was absolutely no new information being presented.  I've heard it all before.  I've read it all before.  I've learned it all before.  But there was definitely something very different about it all this time.

D&C 136:32 really speaks to us.  We know how far we have to go, but we know we're headed in the right direction too.

As I've mentioned before, both Dan & I feel like we've been guided in our preparation.  And I don't mean just by our class instructor.  We both believe the Holy Ghost has been been our biggest advisor and guide, and has most certainly attended us thus far.  That's what makes this not-new info so amazing.  We're ready to hear it with the right ears.  We're ready to feel it with the right heart.  We're ready to see it with the right eyes.  We want to learn more.  We want to serve more.  We want to serve better.  We want to know the Lord better.  We're getting there.  Little by little, we're doing better.  We know we have such a long way to go.  But we also know we're headed in the right direction.  And that is indeed good stuff. 

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