Elder Lynn G. Robbins speaks about repentance and the need for us to never give up in our quest to become more like the Savior.  He speaks about mistakes becoming lessons for us to learn from.

• Hopefully, each mistake we make becomes a lesson in wisdom, turning stumbling blocks into stepping-stones.
  

Second chances to succeed after we have failed are part of the plan that God has for us.  He knew we would not be perfect on our first attempt so he provided a Savior to encourage us to not give up and to keep pressing forward in our quest to become like our Heavenly Father.  The Savior is our biggest cheerleader in our quest to perfection.

• No one is more on our side than the Savior. He allows us to take and keep retaking His exams. To become like Him will require countless second chances in our day-to-day struggles with the natural man, such as controlling appetites, learning patience and forgiveness, overcoming slothfulness, and avoiding sins of omission, just to name a few. If to err is human nature, how many failures will it take us until our nature is no longer human but divine? Thousands? More likely a million.
  

The atonement provides us hope in our quest.  Discouragement and disappointment are natural reactions to failures but the Savior provides hope to us.  He provides us support to continue on in our moments of discouragement.

• Knowing that the strait and narrow path would be strewn with trials and that failures would be a daily occurrence for us, the Savior paid an infinite price to give us as many chances as it would take to successfully pass our mortal probation. The opposition which He allows can often seem insurmountable and almost impossible to bear, yet He doesn’t leave us without hope.
  

Elder Robbins sums up his talk with emphasizing that God's plan was never for us to be perfect.  If we were to be perfect, there would be no need for the Savior.  But God's plan is for us to use the blessing of repentance to help us improve and change our nature.  Repentance isn't God's backup plan, it is His plan.

• Repentance is God’s ever-accessible gift that allows and enables us to go from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm. Repentance isn’t His backup plan in the event we might fail. Repentance is His plan, knowing that we will. This is the gospel of repentance, and as President Russell M. Nelson has observed, it will be “a lifetime curriculum.”
  

Change can be hard to see but we should not be discouraged in our quest to become more like the Savior.  Look back at how far you have come and see the growth that has taken place.  Then look ahead and ask the Lord to change you even more.  He is here to help us change and overcome the discouragements of failure.  The Savior provides us hope that change is a daily achievement we can obtain.

• Only with time-lapse photography or growth charts can we discern our physical growth. Likewise, our spiritual growth is usually imperceptible except through the rearview lens of time. It would be wise to regularly take an introspective look through that lens to recognize our progress and inspire us to “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope.”
  

I love the comment that repentance is His plan.  How grateful I am for a Savior who loves us enough to recognize we will need a renewing of our covenants each week.  I am grateful for the words of the Sacrament prayers what encourage me each week to keep trying to take the Savior's name upon me.  I am not perfect but I am and will continue to change in my quest to become more like my Heavenly Father.  How grateful I am that the Atonement provides me hope when I fail to live up to what the Savior expects.

Elder Robbins speaks about judging others unrighteously.  We something think we are not to judge others by their actions but we have been instructed in the scriptures to not judge unrighteously.  Righteous judgement is necessary to identify things we should stay away from and not have in our lives.

• The natural man and woman in each of us has a tendency to condemn others and to judge unrighteously, or self-righteously.
  

He speaks about the role of a Bishop in the church.  He is a judge in Israel and is to listen, have compassion, and understanding.  He is to show a strong love for the person confessing and to act in the same manner the Savior would in helping people overcome the sins they have committed.

• A righteous judge would respond to confessions with compassion and understanding. An erring youth, for example, should leave the bishop’s office feeling the love of the Savior through the bishop and enveloped in the joy and healing power of the Atonement—never shamed or held in contempt. Otherwise, the bishop may unwittingly drive the lost sheep further into the wilderness.
  

But a bishop also has a responsibility to discipline in order to make right what has been done wrong.  But He must look to disciple in the Lord's way which means to help the person recognize the seriousness of their sin and the cost the Savior has paid to allow their forgiveness.

• However, compassion doesn’t nullify the need for discipline. The word discipline comes from the Latin word discere, “to learn,” or discipulus, “learner,” making a disciple a student and follower. To discipline in the Lord’s way is to lovingly and patiently teach. In the scriptures the Lord often uses the word chasten when speaking of discipline. The word chasten comes from the Latin castus, meaning “chaste or pure,” and chasten means “to purify.”
  
• In the world, it is an earthly judge who condemns a man and locks him in prison. In contrast, the Book of Mormon teaches us that when we willfully sin, we become our “own judges” and consign ourselves to spiritual prison. Ironically, the common judge in this case holds the keys that unlock the prison gates; “for with the chastisement I prepare a way for their deliverance in all things out of temptation.” The proceedings of a righteous judge are merciful, loving, and redemptive, not condemning.
  

Sacrifice is a key component to being forgiven.  Christ's mercy and forgiveness is freely given but to obtain them, we need to seek for healing and make changes that will allow the Savior to change our hearts and desires.

• Through the sweet irony of sacrifice, we actually gain something of eternal worth—His mercy and forgiveness and eventually “all that [the] Father hath.” As part of the repentance process, sacrifice also acts as a healing balm to help replace “remorse of conscience” with “peace of conscience.” Without sacrifice, a person may find it hard to forgive himself or herself, because of a lingering consciousness of something withheld.

Parents have a special responsibility to judge righteously with their children.  Loving discipline is necessary to help guide and direct our children in the right path.

• The principles of righteous judgment apply to all of us, especially to parents who have a daily opportunity to use these principles with their children. To effectively teach a child is the very essence of good parenting, and to lovingly discipline is the very essence of being a righteous judge.

Elder Robbins concludes with the words of President Monson.

• President Thomas S. Monson has taught us, “Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.” How vital that principle is in becoming righteous judges, especially with our own children.
  

I have needed a lot of patience in my life over the past couple years as I have had children move into adulthood.  Sometimes the decisions that are made are not what I would like them to do.  At these moments, I have to consider what the Savior would have me do when I speak to them.  I have come to know that condemning them, guilting them into the right decision, or removing their agency, does not build a relationship of love and respect between us.  Instead, I have learned that showing compassion, identifying mistakes, and discussing the God given gift of agency are better to helping them understand how to make changes in their life that will being them true, eternal happiness.  I may not be the best parent but I am trying to act like the Savior would and lead my children to righteousness because in following the Lord, we will find true happiness in this life and throughout eternity.