Tag: 1 Nephi

I have as assumed that Nephi kept one record from the time he left Jerusalem and then created the small plates after arriving in the promised land. I now realize that he didn’t begin even the large plates until her gas come to this land where they had one and were permitted to make as…

If Laman and Lemuel had not repented before they were swollwed by the sea I suspect that the Lord would have taken them (and perhaps some sons of Ishmael) but left the ship intact.

At various times we had if the Lord speaking with a voice of thunder to someone who doesn’t want to hear. Nephi’s words to his brothers, warning them against touching him, must have come to them like such a nice so that they knew they were not simply listening to their younger brother trying to…

It amazes me that Laman would sell to kill Nephi soon after Nephi saved them by making a now and squirting the food that Laman was unable to get.

When Nephi first started preaching to his brothers he initiated it by asking what they were disputing about but later they came to him with further questions. I wonder why they weren’t skeptical about him giving more detailed answers than Lehi had offered in the earlier session. They must have felt the confirmation of the…

When Nephi had a question he got much more of an answer than he anticipated. He had no excuse for doubt after that.

How often are we sensitive enough to recognize the Lord working through us even when we can confidently say that we don’t know what He is seeking to accomplish in that work? It seems to me that most often I can recognize the Lord working through me because I can see something of what He…

Lego surely thought that his teaching regarding his dream of the Tree of Life was a warning to Laman and Lemuel regarding the choices they had made and hoping that they would realize that making different choices could bring a better outcome. Laman and Lemuel likely concluded instead that their dad simply didn’t like them.

I never thought about the fact that with Nephi, Sam, Ishmael, and the wife and half the daughters of Ishmael the number of faithful travelers as they returned to the tent of Lehi was about equal with Laman, Lemuel, two daughters of Ishmael, and the sons of Ishmael and their families. It was not a…

Sariah was willing to follow her husband up to the point that she cared her sons would push. That was the thing which brought her to murmur.