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My son Talmage understood a principle as a youngster that many people never understand in an entire lifetime. He shouted this principle out as he was learning to ride a bicycle as a four-year-old. He ...

A simple lesson of agency is demonstrated by the wicked Lamanites in the land of Nephi. These people are dissenters and they have been wicked, they have created a great war. They have a dramatic conve...

A few years ago, for summer vacation we were in Newport Beach, California. One day we went to Huntington Beach to shop. I met a man in a juice shop while buying a smoothie. I was wearing a BYU hat and...

I will never forget the lesson of the locksmith. One night my son was driving our car when we called him to pick us up after a family activity. He pulled the car near us to help load some things and h...

I walked out of a tire shop recently and headed toward my truck. I used the key fob to open my truck, but it didn’t work. I tried it again and again and it still did not work. I quickly assumed that t...

I remember years ago when my father left our home for good. It was one of the saddest days of my life. I don’t think there was a more broken heart in the entire world than my mom’s at that time. She w...

During one family night when my son Tyler was thirteen-years-old, my family and I were discussing his upcoming transition to high school. Eight-year-old Blake said to his six-year-old brother McKay, “...

I have a friend in prison that I visit each month. He has been a blessing in my life. As I sit with him he has taught me so much through his life experiences. He has been in prison for ten years and h...

I will call this “the King Mosiah doctrine.” This powerful doctrine has completely changed my approach, my mindset and my life. It is not really Mosiah’s doctrine, but he taught it so powerfully. It i...

A few weeks ago, I was driving behind a few cars as I approached an intersection with a stoplight. The speed limit was 45 mph and that seemed to be the flow of traffic. I was a few hundred feet away f...

Never forget the pattern of the crocodile; a crocodile has 64 teeth, but typically goes through over three thousand teeth in a lifetime. Like the crocodile, we, too, go through thousands of experience...

I have been blessed countless times in my life by the elevation principle. As a young man I had key friends and leaders who motivated and inspired me. As a boy I had a mother who inspired me. As a mis...