What do you get when you take your car to the mechanic?

An afternoon chat with Grandma.

Tyler's uncle is our trusty mechanic who happens to do his repairs at Grandma's house. This time we needed our rear brake pads replaced. So while he worked Grandma and I talked.

She told me how her testimony was strengthened. She had always known the gospel was right and true growing up, "But you know how everyone needs to find out for themselves at some point." She had just been called into the young women program and was on a hike during girls camp when they went on ahead and she sat down on a rock and said a short prayer asking Heavenly Father to strengthen her testimony, to make it stronger.

Her thoughts immediately after that were that she needed to study more, especially the scriptures. She recounted to me how that one thought has made a huge difference in her life and how her testimony grew to become her own, not something she leaned on others for anymore.

[T]he moment you begin a serious study of the [scriptures], [y]ou will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path. The scriptures are called "the words of life" (see D&C 84:85). . . . When you begin to hunger and thirst after those words, you will find life in greater and greater abundance.

--Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, November 1986