I got an email from Deseret Book today advertising Elder Bednar's new book entitled "Increase in Learning". Its a different kind of book that is a little more interactive and comes with supplemental materials, but when I click on the link to look at this book, at the bottom was a link to a service called "Seek" from Deseret Book. I checked it out and found all sorts of cool information. There were a number of videos that involved young adults asking Elder Bednar questions from his book. I love every single one of his answers and I've been waiting for awhile to see if/when an apostle would step up and speak frankly about seriously searching and studying the gospel.
This video describes what I have felt for quite awhile now and is the reason behind my own studies. I've never been able to put it into words exactly, but its just a feeling that you get. It gets you all excited and you don't want to do anything else but learn. Its an amazing feeling.
I liked this video because Elder Bednar somewhat speaks out against the simple sunday school answers that we are so prone to give. Its not that the answers are wrong or inappropriate, its simply that we can recite stuff until we are blue in the face, but rarely do we understand what we are saying and even more rarely do we live it. We draw near to the Lord with our lips, but our hearts are far from Him.
I'm excited for this book and I hope everyone reads it and that it awakens in them a desire to feast upon the words of Christ, desire to learn and gain intelligence, and become more like our Father in Heaven.
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