Seek Higher Flight Levels | Robert E. Wells | August 1984

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Just as airplanes are safer when flying above bad weather, so are we when we seek higher “flight levels” through obedience to the commandments. Click here to see the speech page.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Classic Speaches Podcasts presented by BYU Speaches, bringing you treasured talks from 70 years of BYU Devotionals.
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0:22.1	This devotional address entitled C.edu.edu slash podcasts. This devotional address entitled, Seek Higher Flight Levels, was given on August 5th of
0:28.3	1984 by Robert E. Wells, then a member of the first quorum of the 70 of the Church of Jesus
0:34.6	Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:37.1	There are laws irrevocably decreed in the heavens above before. the 70 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:37.6	There are laws irrevocably decreed in the heavens above before the foundation of the
0:42.9	earth upon which all blessings are predicated.
0:45.8	And when we receive a blessing, it's because we are obeying those laws.
0:52.2	Now there are some laws which are apparently higher in a certain sense than others.
0:57.0	Let me start with the physical law, the law of gravity if I drop something heavier than air, it falls to the earth.
1:05.0	I fly, as was mentioned, small aircraft. I've been flying for some 40 years. Aircraft are heavier than air. Some
1:15.2	heavier than cars, some heavier than locomotives, some very, very large and heavy. They fly
1:22.2	because of a higher law, the law of aerodynamics, which is the law involving a certain amount of speed coupled
1:30.3	with the shape of the lifting surface, so they overcome gravity, and in a sense it's a higher
1:37.3	law.
1:39.3	I fly two kinds of airplanes, those that can cruise any place between sea level and about
1:45.1	the height of Mount Temponogas, the others that have turbochargers or more powerful engines
1:52.3	that can fly above the weather.
1:56.3	Now it's not delightful, it's no pleasant experience to trudge along in weather, in bad weather, in the
2:04.5	kind of aircraft that does not have the power to go up on top. You're there in the dark clouds,
2:10.6	the turbulence, the lightning, the thunder, the rain, hail. It's a beautiful experience, however, to have a very powerful aircraft that will climb quickly
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