This is a question I've contemplated a lot lately.  Why is it so hard to do the easy things?  My friend and I recently ran a marathon.  It was the first time for both of us.  From the beginning of the training we set a goal to lose 10 lbs.  You would think that would be easy since we were training for a marathon.  Well, it wasn't as easy as it seems.  Neither of us achieved our goal of losing 10 lbs.  We did both, however, achieve our goal of finishing the marathon.

So this past weekend the same friend and I went hiking and we were discussing this very topic.  I told her, "10 lbs....how easy is that, and yet we couldn't do it.  Not even 1 lb. a week."  And she made a great analogy to the church.  She said that the hard things for us to do in the church are actually the easiest things.  For example, if the prophet got up in General Conference and told us it was time to move to Zion, we'd probably do it. (Assuming we have a testimony of the prophet).  Yet, we have been told over and over to read our scriptures daily and pray and go to the temple. How many of us don't do this or at the very least don't even make it a priority?  Things that really aren't that difficult but can seem quite hard and daunting at times.  But it's the small things that will really help us to grow and build our testimonies.