Tag: Alma

I can’t decide if this sequence of events unfolded as it did because the Nephites were fast to receive, accept, settle, and provide protection to the people of Ammon or if it came about because the Lamanites were slow to prepare and follow the people of Ammon toward the city of Zerahemla.

I read of how the people of Ammon we do solid on their hope in Christ that they couldn’t be prevailed upon to take up arms to defend themselves right after I read the obituary of Sadie Faith Angelos in which her parents declare that their faith in Christ has been strengthened even add they…

I can think of no more literal example of being overjoyed than when Ammon feints because of his joy at meeting Alma again.

Remembering alone isn’t good enough. We need to seek in our remembering to notice and emphasize how the Lord has been active in the events and experiences that we are stopping to remember.

I never considered before that the first thing the sons of Mosiah did as their mission drew to a close was to stop and reflect on the meaning and outcome of their mission.

Everything that the Amalekites and Amulonites do to sit up the Lamanites to answer against the gospel taught by the sons of Mosiah leads to more Lamanites getting converted. They fight the converts and lost more than they killed. They attached the Nephites and add their military losses mounted the Lamanites began to be stirred…

We have no record that I know of as to whether Lamoni and/or Anti-Nephi-Lehi were among the 1,005 believers killed by the attacking Lamanites but it wouldn’t surprise me if one or both of them were at the front of their people when the attackers came and it seems safe to assume that this killed…

The father of Lamoni must have been a good father to his sons to have at least two of them embrace the gospel as wholeheartedly as Lamoni and Anti-Nephi-Lehi did.

It is amazing to watch someone undergo a spiritual transformation such as the sons of Mosiah saw among the Lamanites who were converted as a result of their teaching.

The more I see how much Heavenly Father allows His children to exercise their agency in ways that are counterproductive the easier it is to believe that the breadth and force of the king’s edict protecting Ammon, Aaron, Omner, Himni, and their brethren might have contributed to the persecution of those who were converted. Had…