Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Adam Miller, Alma 39 to 42.

A change of heart is also an intellectual understanding, a better understanding of what good is.

We've been talking about you have a son on a mission this, how counterintuitive is that?

I think I'll go on a mission to a different country at my own

expense have people slam doors at me and stuff like that because it's so good.

That's not obvious. Yeah, yeah, it's counterintuitive. I had to learn that with the

temple. My wife would frequently when we were newly married say let's go to the temple let's go to the

temple in my mind I thought I don't have time I don't have time to go to the temple it's

something you feel like you are sacrificing your time and it's it's counterintuitive like you said

Adam to realize if I spend the time if I give up my time if I want to make that

time wholly it will actually improve all the other hours of the day.

Well then exercise is counterintuitive isn't it?

I'm going to break my muscles down so that they'll get stronger.

Right, the whole weight room thing.

I often joke that there's that sign right in the gym that says no pain no gain all my life I've had a different model which is no pain

Good

Nobody Good. Nobody believes that one, but. Yeah, it's a little bit like Hank was indicating earlier, right?

It's a little bit like trying to convince your children that no vegetables are going to make you happier.

Yeah. Your happiness depends to some degree here on your energy levels and you're going to get more energy out of those

vegetables you'll feel better you will yeah counterintuitive this discussion

reminded me of a Joseph Smith statement and now I like it even more because of what he first says but I'm thinking about that change of heart of helping us understand what good is. This is from teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, page 51.

The nearer man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views, and the greater his

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