Becoming in 2015

For the past couple years I have picked a word. . . something to inspire and motivate me throughout the year.  Last year it was Deliberate. This year my word is Become. I want to become more of what my Heavenly Father knows I can be. I want to work on not only consistently learning and acting, boldly and deliberately testifying of truths I know, but through living those truths become converted to make those truths a part of who I am. I want to become something more than I am now.

A talk called The Challenge to Become by Elder Oaks has been a great place for me to start.  In this talk I found that through the processof the action verbs, living the gospel, we become converted; we become the "state of being" verbs. He said:

 The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even the most significant acts of goodness . . . is that charity, “the pure love of Christ” (Moro. 7:47), is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes.