Our Prime Purpose
I was struck by the story that Jon Bytheway recently told in a podcast about one of the worst train accidents in American history that took place in 2008 in Chatworth, California. A freight train and a commuter rail passenger train collided head on, killing 25 people and injuring 135 others. He highlighted in the podcast that the determined cause of the accident was that the driver of the rail passenger train had received 7 text messages and send 5 during that ride. This driver had thus been distracted from his responsibility and had run a red light, causing the terrible accident. The referenced this teaching from Elder Richard G. Scott: “Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against goo...