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  Knowledge (Preach My Gospel, Ch. 6) Up until yesterday, whenever people would ask me how classes were going, I would always say, "Pretty good." It's automatic, even if they aren't all going well. Yesterday during a math lecture I was struggling to stay awake in, I decided to look at my grades for all my classes...that definitely woke me up! After setting some rigorous goals, I am confident that the semester will turn out fine for me. But what happened? Why am I not satisfied with my performance in classes? It's because I have missed the aim of education. From a worm's eye perspective good grades are great. But from a bird's eye view, education is so much more! It can mean knowledge, which can mean power. POWER. That looks greedy, all by itself in all caps; but it's true. Knowledge is power. As seen in Alma 26:35, Acts 15:18, 1 Samuel 2:3, and Mosiah 4:9, our Lord is a God of knowledge, which knowledge gives him his power. "Sure,&qu

I just recently got a new mini copy of Preach My Gospel in Spanish. With no markings in it at all, I can start over in what I learn from it, and hopefully have some new insights. I often think of PMG as only a full-time missionary tool. It is not. It is so much more. Chapter 4: How Do I Recognize and Understand the Spirit? Personal Revelation Serving a mission was amazing, especially because of the closeness I experienced with the Holy Ghost. I remember feeling very often like I didn't want to do anything that would make it more difficult to feel and/or follow his promptings every minute of every day for two years so that I could effectively teach the people. Now I have been back from my mission in Chile for longer than I was there, and I can see how incredibly important the guidance of the Holy ghost still is. I teach missionaries at the Missionary Training Center and I have loved every minute of it since I began about 15 months ago. As last semester began I considere