Kurt, may I toss a suggestion your way. You are probably already doing this, but here goes. I look at the truths of the gospel like a each one is a central point that is touched by infinite other points or truths. I firmly believe there are no independent truths in the gospel of Christ, all are connected. We just have to seek those connections.

Example, I know the Spirit is required to really teach the truth, and I know he is required to really learn the truths, yet I got totally blindsided the other day when I went to teach the Gospel Principles class. I’ve been teaching it for years, yet this time I saw a relationship that floored me. The manual said that the Lord sent the Holy Ghost to teach Adam the gospel. I froze. Adam? Why would he need the holy Ghost, the man lived with God! If anyone knew the nature and character of God it was Adam and Eve, what could the Holy Ghost give them they didn’t already know about God? Then the light turned on – Once he was mortal Adam began to forget just like we do. He required the same spirit to spirit communication we do in order to receive the kind of surety of knowledge of spiritual things we do. It all seems so simple, yet so beautifully sublime at the same time.

It is when we seek for the connections that the Lord can begin to show us angles and sides of the Gospel we didn’t know existed. The more we look, the broader our eternal scope becomes.

Okay, that was entirely too long, and I just rewrote half the article I just put on my website, but I hope you get the gist. We need to learn to look at the gospel from the big picture. We are already good at seeing the little picture. We want to see the broader strokes of this beautiful picture. Okay, I’m shutting up now.