On the subject of baby steps.
I went and performed baptisms for the dead (or went with the youth as they did baptisms). I happen to catch that a new picture was in the temple. It was a black woman with a slightly bowed head dressed in white. That is progress.
I also was visiting my brother-in-law and when we went to sacrament meeting there was a high counselor speaking and the HC’s wife was also speaking (she did a much better job than he did!!!). I went up and shook both of their hands, but I held on a second longer to the handshake with the wife and made eye contact and said how much I enjoy hearing from the sisters.