1. Mosiah 19-26

2. “One Sunday morning, more than a year ago, we awoke to a beautiful day in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The Caribbean sun was shining, and the sky was clear. A gentle breeze was blowing, barely ruffling the leaves on the trees; it was warm and peaceful and still. But far out to sea, beyond the reach of our physical senses that day, the deadly destroyer was coming our way, implacable and irresistible. The Hurricane Center, with responsibility to track and predict the path of Hurricane Georges, was constantly updating the information available on the Internet. In the peaceful, placid quiet of that morning, by virtue of those seeing eyes in the sky, I saw the predicted path of the storm, aimed like an arrow at the heart of Santo Domingo.
Elder David R. Stone, “Spiritual Hurricanes,” Ensign, Nov. 1999, 31–32).

3. “Within 48 hours the storm struck the island with intense … fury, leaving in its path destruction, desolation, and death. …
“Great as the damage and destruction and death from these awesome phenomena of physical force can be, there is even more desolation caused in people’s lives by spiritual hurricanes. These furious forces often cause far more devastating damage than physical cyclones, because they destroy our souls and rob us of our eternal perspective and promise. …
Elder David R. Stone, “Spiritual Hurricanes,” Ensign, Nov. 1999, 31–32).

4. “But we also have our spiritual hurricane guardians, those whose calling it is to watch and warn, helping us avoid spiritual damage, destruction, and even death. Our watchmen on the tower are known to us as apostles and prophets. They are our spiritual eyes in the sky, and they know, through inspiration and insight and pure intelligence, the course these storms may take. They continue to raise their voices in warning to tell us of the tragic consequences of willful and wanton violations of the Lord’s commandments. To intentionally ignore their warnings is to court misery, sorrow, and ruin. To follow them is to follow the chosen servants of the Lord into spiritual pastures of peace and plenty”
•How does this story relate to Abinadi’s and Alma’s roles among the people of King Noah?
Elder David R. Stone, “Spiritual Hurricanes,” Ensign, Nov. 1999, 31–32).

5. Mosiah Timeline
200BC -Zeniff (from Zerahemla) desires to return to Land of Nephi-Lehi.
-Zeniff makes a treaty with the Lamanites and they live in Nephi-Lehi
-Zeniff’s people end up in bondage to Lamanites
160BC -Zeniff’s son, Noah, becomes king
150BC -Abinidi & Alma story
-Noah is eventually killed and his son righteous son Limhi becomes the new king
-Limhi sends 43 people to find Zarahemla; they find Jaredite ruins
and 24 gold plates
124BC -16 men go in search of Zeniff’s people that left 73 years earlier
40 Days later -They end up in jail and meet King Limhi
-Limhi’s people escape back to Zarahemla

7. 2 Groups – 2 Trials – 1 Outcome
Mosiah 19-26
2 Groups – 2 Trials – 1 Outcome
Limhi’s People
Alma’s People
21:2-3
21:3,13
21:14-15
22:6-11

8. Book of Mormon Evidences
Mosiah 24:22
“And”

9. Book of Mormon Evidences
Professor Haim Rabin, President of the Hebrew Language Academy and a specialist in the history of the Hebrew language, once used a passage from the Book of Mormon in a lecture in English to illustrate this principle, because, he explained, it was a better illustration than passages from the English Bible.
Hebrew repeats related elements such as prepositions, articles, and possessive pronouns:

10. Book of Mormon Evidences
"And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family and provisions, and tents, and [he, 1830] departed into the wilderness" (1 Nephi 2:4).
"And it came to pass that we went down to the land of our inheritance, and we did gather together our gold, and our silver, and our precious things" (1 Nephi 3:22).
" All mankind were in a lost and in a fallen state " (1 Nephi 10:6).
" My gospel and my rock and my salvation " (1 Nephi 13:36).
" The city of Laman, and the city of Josh, and the city of Gad, and the city of Kishkumen, have I caused to be burned with fire" (3 Nephi 9:10).
" All their men and all their women and all their children " (Mosiah 24:22).

11. Patience
Patience is being willing to submit to the Lord. When we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best --- better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than his. Either way we are questioning the reality of God’s omniscience. We read in Mosiah about how the Lord simultaneously tries the patience of his people even as he tries their faith (Mosiah 23:21). One is not only to endure, but to endure well and gracefully, and submit ‘cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord’ (Mosiah 24:15).
Neal A. Maxwell
Oct. 1980Ensign, p.28

12. 2 Groups – 2 Trials – 1 Outcome
Mosiah 19-26
2 Groups – 2 Trials – 1 Outcome
Limhi’s People
Alma’s People
21:2-3
21:3,13
21:14-15
22:6-11
23:25,29
24:8-12
24:13-15
24:18-21

13. Doctrinally, what happens when we become slow to hear the word of the Lord?
When people are “slow to hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God; …the Lord their God is slow to hearken unto their prayers, to answer them in the day of their trouble” (D&C 101:7).
Mosiah 23:21-22

14. Doctrinally, is being chastened by the Lord a good thing or a bad thing?
Despise not the chastening hand of the Almighty: Job 5:17; Prov. 3:11;
Blessed is the man whom thou chastens, O Lord: Ps. 94:12;
The Lord chastens those whom he loves: Heb. 12:5–11;
The Lord sees fit to chasten his people: Mosiah 23:21–22;
Except the Lord chasten his people, they will not remember him: Hel. 12:3;
They were chastened that they might repent: D&C 1:27;
Whom I love I also chasten that their sins may be forgiven: D&C 95:1;
All those who will not endure chastening cannot be sanctified: D&C 101:2–5;
He that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom: D&C 136:31.

15. Divine chastening has at least three purposes:
(1) to persuade us to repent,
(2) to refine and sanctify us, and
(3) at times to redirect our course in life to what God knows is a better path.
D. Todd Christofferson
April 2011 Gen. Conf.

16. The Perfect Person’s Timeline
Does anyone’s timeline look like this?
Describe a person with this timeline
Born
Nursery
Primary
Baptism
Deacon
Teacher
Priest
Driving - Dating
Graduation
Elder
Mission
Marriage

17. We live in a Telestial World
The Origins of Trials

18. The Origins of Trials
"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old- time journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas, and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride“ (Jenkin Lloyd Jones, as quoted by President Gordon B. Hinckley, BYU Devotional, 23 September, 1973)

19. The Origins of Trials
We live in a Telestial World
Some trials are self-inflicted
Trials come through other people

20. The Origins of Trials
“God actively intervenes in some destructive lineages, assigning a valiant spirit to break the chain of destructiveness in such families. Although these children may suffer innocently as victims of violence, neglect, and exploitation, through the grace of God some find the strength to “metabolize” the poison within themselves, refusing to pass it on to future generations. Before them were generations of destructive pain; after them the line flows clear and pure. Their children and children’s children will call them blessed.”
Carlfred Broderick, Ensign, Aug. 1986,  38–39

21. The Origins of Trials
We live in a Telestial World
Some trials are self-inflicted
Trials come through other people
God will send trials our way

22. Let us remember that we were measured before we were born and we were found equal to our tasks.
Neal A. Maxwell
BYU Speeches, 1986

23. quoted in Faith Precedes the Miracle, p. 98
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we endure, is ever wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure…will make us more like our Father and Mother in Heaven.”
Orson F. Whitney
quoted in Faith Precedes the Miracle, p. 98

27. How do you get through bad days?
When have you felt strengthened by the Lord or felt Him ease your burdens?

28. “Our spiritual safety lies in turning to the clear voice of our living prophet. If we listen to his voice and obey his counsel, we will be able to live as Christ would have us live and endure to the end so that one day we, along with our families, will return back into the presence of our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ”
Elder Robert D. Hales, “Hear the Prophet’s Voice and Obey,” Ensign, May 1995, 17).

29. Part II

30. Why couldn’t they just get baptized?
Mosiah 21:33-35
Why couldn’t they just get baptized?
Mosiah 23:16-17

33. Eric Richards High Priest Ordination: 21 Sep 2000
Ordained By…
Michael Floyd Cooley
Frank Gregory Woidka
Philip Alma Petersen
Sterling Welling Sill
Henry Hooper Blood
Hyrum Mack Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith
Brigham Young
Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Martin Harris
Joseph Smith, Jr
Peter, James, & John
Who were ordained Apostles by
Jesus Christ

34. Priesthood line of Authority
Phone:

35. Read Mosiah 26:35-36
I remember as a child occasionally coming unkempt to the dinner table. My mother wisely sent me to clean up and then return. My parents would have been pained if I had taken offense and had run off and I would have been foolish to do so. In the same way, the servants of the Lord occasionally find that they must, in loving concern, send some of Heavenly Father's children out the door so they can return clean once again. The Lord does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, he has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door. He is greatly saddened when anyone decides they prefer to be unclean and miss the meal, or when they find an excuse to take offense, or when they run away. He is pleased to extend the chance to start over.
M. Russell Ballard
Sept Ensign, p.12

36. Mosiah 19-26