It amazes me how easy it is to forget principles that we spent years learning. A few weeks ago I went and checked out my blog that I never write on (haha) and I realized that there were Russian words all over the page. I freaked out a little bit because I forgot a lot of the Russian that I spent all last year trying to learn. As I stared at the words the Cyrillic alphabet came back to me and I was able to sound the letters out. However, I am afraid that I don't remember the majority of the Russian language that I used too. It doesn't take much to forget something we have taken time to learn.
As I thought about this it led me to think about my testimony of Jesus Christ. It seems that lately I have seen or heard of people who have lost their faith in the Gospel and their belief in the Savior. It worries me to hear about strong faithful people who suddenly turn away in disbelief. What causes such a turn around? Personally, I think it all goes back to my experience of learning Russian and then forgetting it. A testimony of Christ comes through learning about him and searching out his teachings, then seeking for a witness from the Holy Ghost. However, once we stop seeking knowledge and start ignoring what we learned, with time we will gradually forget what we once knew and the Gospel will become as unknown to us as words of forgotten Russian.
