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podcasts or by visiting speeches dot BYU.edu. This devotional address entitled Look for the Light was given on July 2nd of

2024 by LNS Nell then the Associate Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Center for Language Studies,

and an assistant professor at Brigham Young University.

I heard many great talks last April at general conference, but one stood out to me.

It was Elder Duchku's talk entitled Pillars and Raise.

He said that some of us might worry that we have not had an overwhelming spiritual experience,

such as seeing a pillar of light as Joseph Smith did when as a teenage boy he prayed in a grove of trees. Elder Dushku recounted that he, like most of us, had not seen

a pillar of light. Instead, the Lord had sent him a ray of light and then another and another. His testimony is composed of rays of

light gathered over time. This gathering or growing of a testimony over time rang true to me and I began thinking

about my own life. Like Elder Dushku I have not seen a pillar of light but

there have been many rays.

Today I want to tell you about some of the rays of light that I've experienced, and I hope that this might encourage you to reflect about the rays of light in your own life.

I've had more time to gather rays

than most of you and I can tell you that sometimes we may not realize the

significance of those rays until after the passage of many years.

After I was asked to give this devotional, I thought back to when I was a university student.

I didn't go to BYU.

I attended the rival University of North near where I grew up and I was studying to be a teacher.

I was living at home and commuting to campus which meant that sometimes I rode the bus. At the time I was

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