Missionary Training Center- Week 3
We had a district picnic this week to celebrate the halfway point in the MTC for everyone except me..... I still have six weeks. It is still up in the air what I will do for the few weeks where my district is gone and I’m scheduled to be here.
This week, I studied the Anti-Christ’s of the Book of Mormon, Sherem, Nehor, and Korihor. (Jacob 7)(Alma 1)(Alma 30) I compared and contrasts the events and wrote down similar verses and ideas from each story side by side. There were a lot of lessons to be learned and especially interesting to see how Alma changes his reaction from Nehor to Korihor. However, the most impactful lesson for me is this: in each chapter the antichrists are described as being large in stature, mighty, or knowledgeable in the language of the people or in flattery and popularity. Comparing those attributes to the attribute of Savior, particularly in Isaiah where it reads:
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
It is fun to study the Book of Mormon in this way, to find verses or stories that are similar and ask questions about the differences and similarities. Comparing and contrasting is the easiest way to be analytical. Or to ask, Why did Moroni choose to include this in the Book of Mormon?
Here are some photos, don’t ask what happened in the second one. I was trying to get my arm around the Elder next to me but I’m so short and the picture just happened before I could. Awkward...
This week, I studied the Anti-Christ’s of the Book of Mormon, Sherem, Nehor, and Korihor. (Jacob 7)(Alma 1)(Alma 30) I compared and contrasts the events and wrote down similar verses and ideas from each story side by side. There were a lot of lessons to be learned and especially interesting to see how Alma changes his reaction from Nehor to Korihor. However, the most impactful lesson for me is this: in each chapter the antichrists are described as being large in stature, mighty, or knowledgeable in the language of the people or in flattery and popularity. Comparing those attributes to the attribute of Savior, particularly in Isaiah where it reads:
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
It is fun to study the Book of Mormon in this way, to find verses or stories that are similar and ask questions about the differences and similarities. Comparing and contrasting is the easiest way to be analytical. Or to ask, Why did Moroni choose to include this in the Book of Mormon?
Here are some photos, don’t ask what happened in the second one. I was trying to get my arm around the Elder next to me but I’m so short and the picture just happened before I could. Awkward...
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