We have been given an incredible gift called agency. The freedom to CHOOSE. I think that one of Satan‘s many tactics is to make us believe that we are victims and we cannot choose to live a better life, increase our faith and grow spiritually. Join me as I share some scriptures and personal experiences of making choices. Yeonmi Park book: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom. “Exercising agency in a setting that sometimes includes opposition and hardship is what makes life more than a simple multiple-choice test. God is interested in what we are becoming as a result of our choices. He is not satisfied if our exercise of moral agency is simply a robotic effort at keeping some rules. Our Savior wants us to become something, not just do some things. He is endeavoring to make us independently strong – more able to act for ourselves than perhaps those of any prior generation. We must be righteous, even when He withdraws His Spirit, or, as President Brigham Young said, even “in the dark.”

Elder D. Todd Christofferson | “Moral Agency” Ensign, June 2009, p. 53