Growth and Grit

You decide to just read your scriptures and not do any journaling. And you begin to grow spiritually. You find that you are enjoying reading and seeing good verses in the Book of Mormon. But as you read these verses, the spiritual lesson being taught to you simply passes through your brain. You see that you really are not making a ton of progress in building up your testimony. Then one day you decide to take some brief notes on what you have learned in your reading for that day. Then it clicks. Your teacher is not asking you to write in your journal for kicks and giggles, he is asking you to write in your journal to cement the things you have learned and read into your mind.