Sunday, April 20, 2008

Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon

I was asked this morning to fill in for one of the Sunday school teachers. It was the 15 year-old class, and they were great. So today instead of continuing with my string of verses containing the word remember, I read Enos, Jarom, Omni, (and skimmed the Words of Mormon).

The substantive, spiritual part of the lesson came from Enos as he wrestled before the Lord for a remission of his sins and then turned his prayer toward the needs of the Nephites and Lamanites. The rest of the lesson was structural as we made a timeline and discovered that the 200 years between Jarom and King Benjamin are covered in only about 30 verses. Even though the writers in Omni don't appear to have written more than a handful of verses, nevertheless they obeyed the commandment to keep a record. Each of us should be keeping a record. Our records help us remember.

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