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President Dallin H. Oaks recently said that he spent three of his four years as a BYU student wondering what career he should take.

In other words, the church’s future president was the same as many college students who struggle to discover what they are meant to do.

The lesson to learn from his experience was enhanced for me as I listened to him talk in this video with his successor as the university’s president, President Jeffrey R. Holland.

“I felt as I enrolled at BYU that I was going to be a doctor,” President Oaks said. “My father had been a medical doctor and I took a zoology class as a freshman, and I wasn’t more than a few weeks into that

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