“When I was a teenager, I started reading the scriptures more, learning about the gospel, and I developed this really bright testimony and passion,” a student once told Adam Rogers, associate professor in the BYU School of Family Life.

Then she went to college, telling Rogers that she now sees so much tragedy and injustice in a world “in all its complexity, and there’s more questions than there are answers.”

She admitted, “I don’t know if I’ll ever get that same testimony back I once had. Is that just something I have to live with?”

Her professor responded, “That simplicity still exists within the context of a relationship with your Savior.”

Even though questions and complexity may continue, Rogers encourages students to not surrender the clarity that still comes from a “day to day wal

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