General Conference

During the April 2018 General Conference, a talk that really touched me was given by Elder Lynn G. Robbins titled "Until Seventy Times Seven".

These quotes were so powerful to me:

"No one is more on our side than the Savior. He allows us to take and keep retaking His exams. To become like Him will require countless second chances in our day-to-day struggles with the natural man, such as controlling appetites, learning patience and forgiveness, overcoming slothfulness, and avoiding sins of omission, just to name a few. If to err is human nature, how many failures will it take us until our nature is no longer human but divine? Thousands? More likely a million.

Repentance isn’t His backup plan in the event we might fail. Repentance is His plan, knowing that we will."

I am very hard on myself and I often forget that it is through trying and making mistakes, repenting, and taking second chances that I can grow and become more like my Savior and Heavenly Father.  I need to allow myself the thousands or millions of failures.