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featuring inspiring new devotional and forums given each week on BYU campus.

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podcasts or by visiting speeches dot BYU.edu. This devotional address entitled Learn of Christ was given on August 6th of

2024 by Darren M. Biliter, then an associate professor of marketing at Brigham Young University.

Brothers and sisters, thank you for gathering here today for this devotional.

I'm incredibly grateful to be at BYU.

I look out today and I see so many who mean so much to me

from dear family members to mentors students, friends and incredible colleagues who have impacted my life in so many profound ways.

I'm so grateful for you and I feel tremendous love for you because of the many ways you all help me and how we help one another in this community

draw closer to the Savior.

For those of you who are here who are currently BYU students, there is so much good ahead for you.

This is a time in your life of focused learning.

Learning is why you are here at BYU

and learning is also why you are here on Earth.

You are here to progress and to become

who Heavenly Father has created you to become. To progress and develop we need to keep learning.

That progress comes when we persist, whether it's something new or we are building upon previous learning. As we continue to learn, it

brings confidence and purpose to our lives. So what are the things that we should

persist in learning.

With so many different choices about what to learn,

even when we narrow it to the time we were learning at BYU,

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