Appreciate the experiences that help make faith a reality.
      "In order to have faith, or know that we have faith, we need to have experience with faith."
      Recognizing the teachings of the Spirit is an important part of helping faith become a reality. There are many distractions as we learn to discern the Spirit's promptings.
      "President Ezra Taft Benson reminded us that 'the world shouts louder than the whisperings of the Holy Ghost.' Each of us has to learn to be sensitive and to listen to the whisper."
      A woman once said she'd like to keep her children locked in the temple to protect them from the world's shouts. That solution would keep them innocent but absent of experience. It is experience that helps us know good and evil — and recognize the promptings of the Spirit.
      "Experience can also help us recognize when good feelings are lacking. . . . You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible."
      Our Heavenly Father, knowing that we would make mistakes, provided a Savior for us.
      "We need to know how the atonement works in our lives and how good feelings can be regained and retained when mistakes have been made."
      Fundamentals of daily living — scripture reading, family prayer, family home evening — provide the experiences that make faith a reality.
      "Through our own repeated efforts, our faith can become a reality."