Scripture Mastery

When I originally started here at BYU in the fall the combination of education and the Gospel was something I had to adjust to. Growing up I always heard “keep church and state separate”, so coming to a private university that openly discusses the gospel of the LDS church was amazing and shocking all at once.  Now that I have adjusted though, I believe that incorporating the Gospel into my education has been a great and powerful blessing in my life.

I think the greatest blessing has been my religion classes. Again, it was a major change from the relaxed seminary atmosphere I had experienced in high school, and I was discouraged when I didn’t know the scriptures as well as other students did. Yet after I fully dedicated myself to learning new things about the scriptures there hasn’t been a day when I haven’t learned something new. I am grateful for my current professor, Brother Largey, because he exemplifies a love for the scriptures that I have not seen from anyone else before. He can probably quote half of the Book of Mormon word for word, it’s insane. I have a goal to become a scripture expert like him someday, and I am so happy I have religion classes to push me to learn!