The Miracle of the Atonement

I need to post daily but I don't know what to write about tonight so I'm going to post one of my favorite conference talks of all time. This talk was given just a few weeks after I attended my first ARP meeting. I remember weeping at the time it was given. I remember watching this talk over and over again on my DVR. I would play it in the morning as I was getting ready for work. I read it over and over, and I still go back to it frequently. The most astonishing thing to me was that Elder Grow's brother was called to be a bishop after his excommunication. I remember sitting in awe as I heard this story. I remember thinking that if someone who had lived a "hedonistic lifestyle" could come back from it, come back from excommunication and be a bishop, then maybe there was quite a bit of hope for me also. Maybe I could fully repent and forsake my sins. Maybe abstinence was possible.

With no further adieu,