Prerequisites to Progression

One last blog post from President Uchtdorf's talk. I promise that not all of this session's Conference talks will get as much attention as this one has gotten.

Toward the end of his talk, President Uchtdorf said that, to progress in the gospel, we should start where we are. There is no minimum level of spirituality that we need to reach before we can start to progress toward our eternal potential.

I learned in my life that we don’t need to be “more” of anything to start to become the person God intended us to become.

God will take you as you are at this very moment and begin to work with you. ...

However, there are a few prerequisites - if we want to call them that - a few qualities that we need to have in order to begin making progress, and President Uchtdorf listed them.

 All you need is a willing heart, a desire to believe, and trust in the Lord.

These qualities, while necessary, are thankfully easy to develop. All we really need is a desire to improve and a willingness to do so God's way. If we are willing to let God help us, He can take us from where we are right now - no matter where we are right now - to where He know we can go. If we have "a willing heart, a desire to believe, and trust in the Lord," we have all the tools we need to progress toward perfection.

We don't have to be perfect now. All we need is to be willing to start where we are and begin progressing from there.