Kristin M. Yee

I think a key for, for being molded is to just continue letting the Lord mold us.

It reminded me of Kristen Yee's talk about her painting that she did when she messed up, and if she messed up and then just stopped and just gave up, then that would be it, and she wouldn't have been able to reach her final project, her final destination.

And so we need to be continuously available to be molded to be better.

So can I pull this into repentance? With molding, you know, Jake, you reminded me of this when you said, you know, when Kristen Yee messed up, and if she would've given up, she wouldn't have ended up...

or if she would have given up, she wouldn't have ended up with this final product that she had.

I think that's key for us to think, like, you know, some days we're going to mess up, and if you don't keep going and keep pursuing the Savior, you're never gonna reach that final joy.

And, and I was like, "Well, I know the Lord." You know, I have the doctrine from the church of like, the, the Lord can help us with all of our infirmities, and one of the best things the Lord is good at is at actually changing hearts.

I'm like, "Well, I know he can do this." And at about the time this was happening, uh, Kristen Yee gave a talk in October of twenty twenty-two, and she talked about a warring heart.

In fact, that's where the phrase that I've, you know, framed for myself came from is, is from her talk, and it really made an impact on me.

And she talked about this idea of a warring heart, and she talked about her experience of, of being mistreated and, uh, and how she had to deal with that.

And I'm like, "Oh, well, I can learn from her." And, um, so I studied her talk over and over and over again, and then I found something I felt like I was led from the Lord to a book I'd had on the shelf for like over a decade from Stephen Covey called The Divine Center, and he talked about the same thing in different words.

There's a couple things that they said, you know.

One of them, you know, Kristen Yee said, "The Savior who is healing our warring hearts is the same Savior who will save those who have deeply hurt us." That's a really powerful, uh, principle about like, hey, the Savior's working for all of us, and He can heal all of our infirmities and all of the infirmities of those who hurt us.

And so that is, is important.

Well, there are two sisters in each of these councils.

And so I was walking to this council with Kristen Yee, and it was our first time.

And I remember distinctly saying to her, you know, everybody else who's going to be seated around the table, three apostles, presiding bishopric member, member of the presidency of the 70, other general authorities, staff, they've been immersed in the work of this council for years, and we're just walking in brand new.

So I said to her, the first several weeks, I'm just going to sit and listen and kind of see how this is going to work, and then I may feel more confident to add something.