Experience Creates Belief

My grandson Tyler learned on his mission that "experience creates belief". (What we experience, read, and think about - our perception - creates our beliefs.) Tyler wisely stated "That's why we have to read the scriptures every day and pray, if we don't, we lose the Spirit. If you're not doing those things, you're not getting the 'experience' and the Spirit cannot testify to you." - Tyler D Lewis.
I have pondered on this and I have come to understand the statement that "Experience creates belief". What experiences are we creating? Experience is what we are here to gain. We learn from experience. What are we experiencing and what are we learning from it? Is it true? Is it deception?
Satan has quadrupled his efforts. "The scriptures teach us that Satan desires to lead people into darkness. His every effort is to shut out the light and truth of Jesus Christ and His gospel." - M Russell Ballard.
Our children have many experiences inside and outside of the home - experiences both positive and negative - that they may or may not share with their parents. Experiences in school, on the internet, subtle teaching of evil on TV and in movies.1 We live in a darkening world. Hence the critical need to teach the gospel in the home.
We have been counseled to have family gospel discussions with the shortened Sunday meeting schedule. M Russell Ballard said, "The Sabbath-day adjustments that emphasize home-centered, Church-supported gospel learning and studying are an opportunity to renew our spirit and our devotion to God within the walls of our homes. What could possibly be more simple, basic, and profound? Brothers and sisters, can you see that learning and teaching the gospel in our families is an important way to find joy and happiness in our lives?"
Flexibility and being led by the Spirit is emphasized in the Come Follow Me manual for families. It gives us ideas, guidelines and resources. (Suggested Church videos are excellent!)
President Nelson has told us we're running out of time: “As President of His Church, I plead with you who have distanced yourselves from the Church and with you who have not yet really sought to know that the Savior’s Church has been restored. Do the spiritual work to find out for yourselves, and please do it now. Time is running out.” he said in April 2019.
Our spiritual survival will depend on following the prophets. They are seers - They warn us. Pay attention to the words they give.
If we don't understand President Nelson's words that time is running out, I recently came across Bruce R. McConkie's observations in the Millennial Messiah (pp. 381-382) about the plagues poured out in the seventh seal. He said that modern revelation tells us that Christ's coming will come sometime after the opening of the seventh seal spoken of by John in the Book of Revelation. We are told that at the beginning of the Millennium there will be silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. Elder McConkie said "If the time here mentioned is "the Lord's time" in which one day is a thousand years, the half hour would be some twenty-one of our years. Could this be interpreted to mean that such a period will elapse after the commencement of the seventh thousand-year period and before the outpouring of woes about to be named?' Not knowing the exact timing of the beginning of the Millennium, but seeing the signs of the times, and the words of the prophets, we can see the need to prepare for the coming days prophesied in the scriptures. We need to be strengthened spiritually. We need to teach the gospel to our children. As President Ballard said, it can be simple, basic, and profound.

1. "Newer mesh systems might offer handy parental controls, which let you set some restrictions and control them all from an app. For example, you might be concerned about screen time, so you can set time limits, such as allowing the kids to be online for, say, two hours per weekday, between 7 pm and 9 pm. And you can pause the Wi-Fi for your kids' devices during dinner and bedtime. In some cases you can also filter content for a device, such as preventing access to inappropriate websites." - Marc Saltzman, high-tech reporter and author.