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Pls correct me if I'm wrong: 1. We all need grace and forgiveness from the Savior. No one else can help us overcome our sins, mistakes, etc. 2. President Ezra Taft Benson put it most poignantly when he said, “When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.” 3. The Lord says: “Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. “And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come.” (D&C 130:18–19.) I don't get why we need to stress ourselves out - trying to attend every meeting, keep every rule, attend every optional event, etc. when we all need the Savior's grace. I also don't get what the benefit of "so much the advantage in the world to come" will be. I will be ahead of brother and sister Jones after we all die? Okay, and? Let's say they're ahead of me in their intelligence and knowledge and diligence and obedience - I'm 100% fine with that. I have all of eternity to catch up with them - at the same time, it's not a race and there's no end to time in eternity, so...? Unless the goals we set in mortality include obtaining certain callings or qualifying for the blessings from certain callings - I can not conceive of any reason why the afterlife would be a race ala "I'm ahead of Brother Jones. Ha ha!" "I'm behind brother jones. Oh no!" Isn't part of the reason we have Temple work specifically for those who weren't able to "start the race"/accept the Savior's restored gospel in mortality? If this principle of advancement applied to our pre-earth life - which is likely - I don't understand why that matters. If I was a slower Intelligence (likely) and needed more help in mortality (fact), I don't think God would love me less or be disappointed in me taking more time to learn and advance.