The concept of faith has always remained very abstract to me. My life has been based too much on logistics and statistics, rather than the idea that not everything in life can be explained. So when Elder Robert D. Hales offered his prophetic advice on how to believe and obtain faith, I found that I sincerely wanted to know. I've always been in awe of the tremendous and impenetrable faith that so many characters in ancient scripture possessed. How could they believe so firmly in something that had yet to be proven, by earthly standards? And how could I?

Hearing Elder Hales describe it so simply helped me to understand really what faith was. It is simplicity. It's basic.