The Perfection Process

Today includes 12+ hours of traveling, so I don't think I'll have too many experiences or personal insights to offer. However, I do want to share something I read. Reading this was a great reminder of something I grew up believing and something everyone needs to know: the way to become perfect and pure.

"Let’s face it. All of us have done something that we ought not to have done, or we have neglected to do things we should have done. All of us then have made mistakes, and every one of us needs to repent. The old devil would have you believe that if you have made one mistake, why don’t you just keep on making mistakes? That is Satan trying to tell you that there is no chance to come back. But you must turn your face towards the rising sun, and through repentance turn from the thing you have done that is wrong and never go back again thereto...

Now, if you have made mistakes, make today the beginning of a change of your lives. Turn from the thing that you have been doing that is wrong. The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today. If it is one of dishonesty, if it is one of unchastity, if it is one of falsifying, not telling the truth, today is the day for you to work on that until you have been able to conquer that weakness. Put that aright and then you start on the next one that is most difficult for you to keep. That’s the way to sanctify yourself by keeping the commandments of God."

We should acknowledge and apologize for our mistakes to those we've harmed and to God and that "He that repents thus of his sins and altogether turns away therefrom, to return no more to a repetition thereof, is entitled to the promise of a forgiveness of his sins... as it was declared by the Prophet Isaiah, 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.'"

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee

Chapter 4: The First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel

http://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-harold-b-lee/chapter-4?lang=eng