However, in order to receive that gift they had to do four things,which are really similar to what we must do in order to receive and keep our endowment from God.

1, we need to achieve a higher standard of living. The way my stake president put it was: As (Your name here) College, you are doing great things. You are doing much good in the world. But with your endowment, when you become (Your name here) University, you are capable and responsible to do so much more. You need to live a better life.

Another big part of number 1 is to spread more knowledge. If we look at D&C 43:15-16, it tells us what we are spreading, how, and why.

If we replace, for the sake of this blog, elders with sisters, or even with your own name, you see the work of a missionary. We are sent forth to teach the children of men (everyone) the things which the Lord has put into our hands by the power of His Spirit (the gospel). In that sense, our job is to teach everyone the gospel. Simple enough.

We are also to "be taught from on high." What does that mean? Really, it means that we must be open to revelation and to the Spirit. In order to receive testimony of anything, which is required of us if we are to teach the Gospel, we must be able to discern the Spirit and revelation from our own thoughts. As Sister Beck said, "The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life."

Sanctify, or purify, yourselves and "ye shall be endowed with power, that ye may give even as I have spoken." Give? Give what? This is one of the keys to understanding missionary work.

What we are giving is the gospel. We are giving of our knowledge of it to others. We are giving the opportunity to others to recognize and follow Christ. We are not just teachers, but givers, and this why missions are so incredibly hard. As full-time missionaries we are asked to give not just knowledge, but everything, to the Lord. We give up our own will so that, when the Lord says "knock on that door," we do it without hesitations. We give up our dreams and desires of the moment so that we don't waste precious energy pining for thing that are unimportant for the moment.

2, we take on the Lord's name. In that sense, your goal shouldn't even be (Your name here) University, but Jesus Christ University. That's why it's so important that our missionary badges have the name of Christ on them. It becomes our charge to live a higher standard of living, coming as close to Christlike as we are able to.

3, which is rather self-explanatory, we keep our covenants. In order to be worthy for our grand endowment of power, we must be willing to abide by the promises we make in the temple.

4, be permanent. This one is perhaps the hardest, but most important, concept. We can't be willing to slip back into (Your name here) College's way of living. Once you have made covenants, or sacred, two-way promises, with the Lord, you cannot allow yourself to revert. You need to have a permanent and abiding testimony of the gospel and of Jesus Christ and His Atonement. You need to sustain your leaders and believe that they are called by God.

As a missionary, you need to know that the Lord called you to your specific mission. You need to be permanently committed to exact obedience and discovering the will of the Lord. You can't be willing to take one eensy-weensy step backwards to who you were before you were called to serve and then received your endowment.

I hope these responsibilities aren't daunting to you. For me, it gave me great hope. I have been living a long time as Dain Broadbent College, and while she's doing great things and is spreading much good in the world, her potential for goodness and even greatness is so much greater as Dain Broadbent University, or even Jesus Christ University. The same is for you. As Uncle Ben so famously said to Peter Parker, "with great power comes great responsibility." What I think he left out is that, with great power, or grand power, comes great potential for growth and goodness.

Yes, this is all the opinion of an un-endowed future sister missionary, so don't take my word for it if you don't want to. This is just how I was taught to think about endowments, and if it helps you like it did me, awesome.

Either way, you are awesome. Yes you. You are doing good things, great things. If you have doubts, don't feel guilty. We all do. It's how you respond to those doubts that determine whether you will keep doing good things or if you will one day start to do grand things. That's all up to you.