Simple Statement of Principle: The apostles of Jesus Christ lead us to be the best that we can be.
1 Thessalonians 2:11-13
11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Maybe this scripture stuck out to me because I've been thinking about how to prepare for General Conference. I liked how we were talking a couple of weeks ago in institute about how we each choose our favorite apostles or a certain speaking style that we respond to: We like President Monson because of his stories, we enjoy listening to Elder Holland because his literary scholarship. However, I like how this scripture is written by an apostle of the Lord about the apostles of the Lord. Each of them wants to exhort, comfort, and charge all of us to live up to our divine potential. That comforts me. I'm in the process of applying to graduate programs, and I think it's really stressful, but at the same time it's so comforting to have professors who tell me they see potential in me. That statement is so much greater coming from apostles of the Lord.

M. Russell Ballard said, "If you will listen to the living prophet and the apostles and heed our counsel, you will not go astray." That is a great promise. I know that we have a divine heritage and that through the apostles that are on the earth today, we can learn to walk worthy of God.