“Lessons from the Savior’s Young Adult Life”, Elder Kent F. Richards, BYU Devotional, 3/10/15

“Please note that your growth is not defined by external circumstances or appearances. Your growth is personal and comes from within. You are defined by how you discover your own path and then overcome all of the obstacles that seem to make it hard to progress. Elder Neal A. Maxwell often taught about our “customized curriculum” (Neal A. Maxwell, “But for a Small Moment,” BYU fireside address, 1 September 1974) —that which we personally need to learn and experience. I remember during those difficult years of medical training working more than 100 hours a week at the hospital, trying to support a little family; serving in heavy Church assignments; and hearing Elder Boyd K. Packer talk about “packages of provisions” (Boyd K. Packer, “That They May Be Redeemed,” address delivered at regional representative seminar, 1 April 1977)  provided personally for us at critical times along the way. The Father knows our needs and knows our future. He sends us sustaining blessings just as we need them—but, in our experience, only as we are doing our best. Increasing in wisdom, stature, and favor requires our moral agency and action.”

"When the servants of the Lord determine to do as He commands, we move ahead. As we proceed, we are joined at the crossroads by those who have been prepared to help us. They come with skills and abilities precisely suited to our needs. And, we find provisions; information, inventions, helps of various kinds, set along the way waiting for us to take them up. It is as though someone knew we would be traveling that way. We see the invisible hand of the Almighty providing for us... When we are ready, there will be revealed whatever we need—we will find it waiting at the crossroads." - Boyd K. Packer ("That They May Be Redeemed," address delivered Regional Representative Seminar, April 1, 1977).