By making and keeping temple covenants, we learn more about the Lord’s purposes and receive a fulness of the Holy Ghost.¹⁹ We receive direction for our lives. We mature in our discipleship so that we do not remain perpetual, unknowing children.²⁰ Rather, we live with an eternal perspective and are more motivated to serve God and others. We receive increased capacity to fulfill our purposes in mortality. We are protected from evil,²¹ and we gain greater power to resist temptation and to repent when we stumble.²² When we falter, the memory of our covenants with God helps us return to the path. By connecting to God’s power, we become our own pororoca, able to go against the flow of the world, throughout our lives and into the eternities. Ultimately, our destinies are changed because the covenant path leads to exaltation and eternal life.²³ – Dale G. Renlund, “Accessing God’s Power through Covenants,” Ensign (CR) May 2023