Patience is a process of perfection. The Savior Himself said that in your patience, you possess your souls. Or to use another translation of the Greek text, in your patience, you win mastery of your souls. Patience means to abide in faith, knowing that sometimes it is in the waiting, rather than in the receiving, that we grow the most. This was true in the time of the Savior. It is true in our time as well, for we are commanded in these latter days to "continue in patience until ye are perfected."