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home and write down what you need to repent for.
    Your last quest is to learn to communicate with God. Pray and see if He is there. Ask Him if you have what it takes to make it back home. Prayer is something you can take with you anywhere in the world. Learn its power and how it guides you. Build a relationship again with your First Father. Talk to Him daily and ask for strength to overcome Satan.
    You have been given strengths to build confidence.
    You have been given
weaknesses to stay humble.
    You have been given the Atonement to keep going.
    You have been given
prayer to be guided.

K nowing who you are and why you are here and how to fix your problems is a huge boost of strength for your quest. But, as you know, others are also on individual quests. Some of them may have lost their way and will be trying to knock you down or thwart your efforts to become an heir to the Kingdom of God. You may have realized that this quest is not easy. In fact, it can be very difficult. No doubt, you’d like some answers for why it is so hard.
    Why Can Life Be So Hard?
    We have trials and difficulties on our quest for three main reasons: First, so that we may learn to seek and follow the counsel of God, second, because of free agency. And third, the difficulty of the quest builds character and teaches us lessons.
    First: Remember God
    Ask yourself: Would you pray or need a higher power “God” if your quest was problem free? If your path had no obstacles, no people trying to push you off, or no dragon trying to destroy you, would you pray? Maybe, maybe not. Having trials, challenges and Satan in our life encourages us to draw close and reach out to God.
    If your quest is full of easy paths, blue skies and nice people would it be a real test? In order for a quest to do its job in proving our worthiness, it must have difficulty. Though this quest will be difficult, that doesn’t mean that we can’t conquer it. But to conquer it, we must reach out to the one who has done it before us and to the One that sees all and knows all, namely Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father.
    As we go through difficult times, we need to learn to love and have faith in our Heavenly Father—no matter what happens on our path. We need to believe that our Heavenly Father is watching out for us and will assist us every time we ask. Trials and challenges are there to draw us close to our Heavenly Father. He wants us to call on Him for help, understand and use the atonement of Christ, and seek His guidance and counsel so that we can achieve our goal and live with Him again.
    Second: Free agency
    Free agency is the biggest reason why our quest is fraught with difficulties. Though free agency is what we fought for in the Preexistence and was given to everyone as a gift, it can sometimes put quite a damper on our quest, sometimes because of us, and sometimes because of others. There is power when making choices, but sometimes this power can be abused.
    It hurts our Heavenly Father to watch His children harm each other. But, He cannot take away anyone’s free agency. If He were to take away our free agency and force us nor others to do what is right, then He would be following Satan’s plan and cease to be God. Our Heavenly Father understands the quest can be difficult when we make poor choices or when others abuse their free agency and it affects us. But, God promised if we conquer our quest, despite what happens to us, we will be rewarded.
    God is a loving and just God. Therefore, those that abuse their free agency and hurt you will have justice served to them—either here in this life or in the next. Please understand that, though God cannot take away the free agency of man and though He will make sure justice is served to those who abuse it, He has given us everything we need to overcome anything. When we mess up because we abuse our free agency, the atonement can wipe it clean. When others mess up and hurt us because of their free agency, the atonement can