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Alma the Younger: A Disciple’s Quest to Become

… perspective of life can yield to cynicism when reviewing the purpose of our existence, just as King Macbeth … heart of the Book of Mormon, in the books of Mosiah and Alma, Alma the Younger makes the subject of change, progression, and …

Lessons from the Zarahemla Churches

… In the October 1986 general conference, President Ezra Taft … ourselves, “Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn … Chapter 27 tells the story of the conversion of Alma the Younger and the four sons of king Mosiah and the beginning of …

Lessons from the Zarahemla Churches

… In the October 1986 general conference, President Ezra Taft … ourselves, “Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn … Chapter 27 tells the story of the conversion of Alma the Younger and the four sons of king Mosiah and the beginning of …

Training Up a Child

The Book of Mormon gives hope and proper perspective to … 1:1), Jarom (Jarom 1:15), King Benjamin (Mosiah 1:2, 7), Alma the Elder (Alma 36:17), Alma the Younger (Alma 39:1–2), the anonymous mothers of the young …

Words from the Wise

… Mormon, the compiler and redactor of the Book of Mormon, records that during the days of Alma the Younger, around 74 BC, the people had become hard-hearted and …

Alma’s Cry for Salvation

… Like Alma, we can come to know that "there is none other name … Jesus Christ... whereby man can be saved." Remembering the Savior (modified), by Kevin Keele. Courtesy of … described in Jonah’s Psalm also seems germane to Alma the Younger’s experience: “I cried [ šiwwaʿtî ] by reason of mine …

Dealing with Opposition to the Church

… About 120 BC, King Mosiah gathered the people of Zarahemla together to hear accounts of the … bondage suffered by the people of Limhi and the people of Alma in the land of Nephi (Mosiah 25:1–6). Those hearing the … 1–4, the Church, then under the leadership of Alma the Younger, faced new internal and external problems. These …

“We Did Magnify Our Office unto the Lord”

… Latter-day Saints generally think only of revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants as a source of information about … the spiritual leader of his people, Nephi consecrated his younger brothers, Jacob and Joseph, to be “priests and … 8:13–18). With his ecclesiastical power, Mosiah authorized Alma to establish churches throughout the kingdom and to …

Alma’s Reform of Zarahemla: A Model for Activation

… Certainly one of the most remarkable missionary efforts ever recorded in … to the knowledge of the Lord their God” (Mosiah 28:2; see Alma 17–26). [1] Today we encourage our missionaries to … the same time by their companion in conversion, Alma the Younger. [2] While the sons of Mosiah worked to convert the

The Testimony of Alma: “Give Ear to My Words”

… KBYU and BYUTV. Minerva K. Teichert, An Angel Appears to Alma and the Sons of Mosiah, ca. 1935, oil on masonite, 36 x 48 … the wonderful words and inspiring testimony of Alma the Younger. I am amazed and enriched by the words of this truly …