It is being able to choose righteously that helps us to grow up. Using agency, in harmony with God s will, helps us learn about ourselves. It teaches us what the Lord already knows about us. Returning the grocery cart and voting for propositions that affect your community tell about you. Obedience to God s laws leads to more freedom and greater peace.
Disobedience limits our capacity to exercise that agency.
We have repeated the Second Article of Faith since Primary days. Nothing can free us spiritually more than obedience to God s laws. A car was invented to run on gasoline. We were created to feast on the fuel the Lord offers His commandments given out of love to make us free and give us peace. And yet too often we resist His outstretched arm.