Elder Quentin L. Cook

I loved it.

Well, I taught gospel doctrine.

because I'm in the Sunday school presidency in my ward.

So I shared those two, two videos and then taught gospel doctrine.

And I, I, we've always known that this 25 minutes is going to be so impactful for the youth.

And I just think there's a lot of principles that we can learn from this.

And there are a lot of reasons why, and, a couple of things is like, how much more does the church need to say that we are responsible for our own learning? Like how much more are we like, even at the beginning of every come follow me lesson, after you read the material, after you've been in the scriptures, like we are responsible for our own learning and to carry that on with our family.

Like it's so, so crucial and so important.

And our attitude is going to make a huge difference.

how we approach this.

To me, it's kind of, even it was in that video with Elder Bednar and Elder Kieran, like fresh starts and new beginnings.

This is a chance for a fresh start and a new beginning for like us as a church, right? How are we going to approach our Sabbath worship? how are we going to be active participants in our study? And I also think it's the principle of love, right? Like this is a powerful principle where we are now going to see each other more and we need to share more love and share, be, show more grace.

And there's going to be mistakes and there's going to be people who maybe end a couple minutes later and we just go with the flow and share love and grace and it just is an emphasis to me of how we're in a ward for a reason and a purpose and we need each other and that these these relationships are important to our spiritual growth and for us to become we need to practice becoming and practice together

catherine i i can't agree more and i know for both of us as as religion teachers this is something we're constantly teaching our students, right? It's the same idea with the five wise virgins and the five foolish virgins.

You go, those who know Jesus Christ, right, are the ones he allows in.

It's not those, and this sounds a little bit harsh, but it's not those who are just hearing about him.

It's those who walk with him.

It's those who are studying about him, those who are striving to become like him.

I had a conversation one time where I was working with this man and he was asking me all these questions about the Bible.

And I remember him just saying to me, well, how many times is such and such word used in the Bible? And how many times, it was all this information and all just, Really, it was information.

And at the end, he just said, and you actually believe the Bible? I mean, I didn't know all the answers that he knew to some of the questions, but what he was asking was information.

And he was just asking to me what, at the time I was much younger, I was concerned with myself that I didn't have all these answers that he had.

I realized years later, decades later, that he did have a lot of information.

It's really second Timothy, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

We are beyond the point in the world where we can be shallow.