Andy’s BYU Devotional

The skills you are developing will be more important and important in more ways than you may expect or ever discover just like the skills of Dr. Nathan Smith that saved the leg of Joseph Smith.

“A steady, experienced arm of flesh, guided by the Lord, ???” I want that quote.

When we consistently act in faith we find that not only is our ability to do increased but our faith – and hence our ability to learn – is also increased.

  1. Multiple repetitions over time
  2. Practice with feedback
  3. You can’t learn just by being told
  4. Integrate with skills already learned
  5. More than robotic repetition
  6. Exercise of skill changes circumstances
  7. If you are attentive, you learn something new each time you perform the skill

Skill is more than just Thinking about something

“It is the constant interaction between agency and action”

Our actions, even the habitual ones, are an expression of our desires.

Why should we devote energy to things that cannot (or that we would not want to) rise with us in the resurrection?


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