Becoming an Expert Saint

A young man, mission bound, gave a talk yesterday on how to become a real expert in something and then related it to the gospel.  The answer wasn’t credentials.

His first three insights were practice, study, working in an area where the underlying phenomenon is repeatable and not just random.  These all had obvious applications to the gospel.

But his fourth suggestion for expertise was feedback.  That was less obvious how we go about getting gospel feedback.  I suppose the answer is to lean into priesthood interviews.  But also to direct your prayers that way.  I usually report in prayers and ask for help with failures and for advice on what next, but I rarely ask for an evaluation of how well I did.