Education is one of the main focuses of my life at the moment. I feel so blessed for the opportunities which I have been given to learn. I also feel blessed to have the capacity to understand and comprehend the information I receive as part of my education. I love that the church emphasizes the importance of receiving an education and gaining knowledge. This applies not only to secular learning, but also to the gospel. We are instructed to learn the principles of the gospel, and that is a process which will continue to occur throughout eternity. I hope that even after I finish my schooling, I continue to learn and grow and become. It is through this process that our wonderful Heavenly Father shapes us into who He wants us to be.
1) October 2010, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Of the Things That Matter Most”
"They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia—even during times of stress and fatigue. Because they unnecessarily complicate their lives, they often feel increased frustration, diminished joy, and too little sense of meaning in their lives."
"I think most of us intuitively understand how important the fundamentals are. It is just that we sometimes get distracted by so many things that seem more enticing."
“The effort to know God and His work began before mortality and will not be concluded here. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught, ‘It will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned … all the principles of exaltation.’ We build on the knowledge we acquired in the premortal spirit world…. As spirit children of God, in an existence prior to mortality, we desired a destiny of eternal life but had progressed as far as we could without a mortal experience in a physical body.”
“In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to know something, the plan of salvation and the gospel of Jesus Christ challenge us to become something.”
“Our beloved Heavenly Father’s plan includes giving us a growing, stretching, learning, physical mortality through which we can become more like Him.”
"The Lord wants you to educate your minds and hands, whatever your chosen field. … You will bring honor to the Church and you will be generously blessed because of that training. There can be no doubt, none whatever, that education pays.”
“These are the words of the Lord who loves you. He wants you to train your minds and hands to become an influence for good as you go forward with your lives. And as you do so and as you perform honorably and with excellence, you will bring honor to the Church, for you will be regarded as a man or woman of integrity and ability and conscientious workmanship. Be smart. Don’t be foolish. You cannot bluff or cheat others without bluffing or cheating yourselves.”
“Our youth have no need to be afraid or tentative about themselves or about their future. What they do need to do is believe and to rise up to make the most of the remarkable day in which we live.”
“As we look to the future and anticipate the ever more confused and turbulent world in which we will live, I believe it will be essential for all of us to increase our capacity to seek learning by faith.”
“Endowed with agency, we are agents, and we primarily are to act and not only to be acted upon—especially as we seek to obtain and apply spiritual knowledge. Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father’s plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.”
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