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No Enduring Improvement Can Occur Without Righteous Exercise Of Agency. Do Not Attempt To Override Agency. The Lord Himself Would Not Do That. Forced Obedience Yields No Blessings.

I Witness That As You Gain Experience And Success In Being Guided By The Spirit, Your Confidence In The Impressions You Feel Can Become More Certain Than Your Dependence On What You See Or Hear.

. . . We Will Never Be Prompted By The Holy Ghost To Do Something We Cannot Do. It May Require Extraordinary Effort And Much Time, Patience, Prayer, And Obedience, But We Can Do It.

When We Seek Inspiration To Help Make Decisions, The Lord Gives Gentle Promptings. These Require Us To Think, To Exercise Faith, To Work, To Struggle At Times And To Act. Seldom Does The Whole Answer To A Decisively Important Matter Or Complex Problem Come All At Once. More Often, It Comes A Piece At A Time, Without The End In Sight.

When I Marry, It Will Be To A Faithful Returned Missionary In The Temple.