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Alma 19-23

Alma 19-23. Called to Serve—249. Ad in the December 29, 1913 London Times. “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.”.

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Alma 19-23

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  1. Alma 19-23 Called to Serve—249

  2. Ad in the December 29, 1913 London Times “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.”

  3. This ad was, according to tradition, placed by Sir Ernest Shackleton, soliciting adventurers to accompany him on his Trans-Antarctic expedition. Also, according to tradition, 5,000 men responded to the ad!

  4. Ad in February 1999 issue of Pentecostal Herald

  5. The Mission to the Lamanites • Alma 19-20 • Alma 21-22 • Alma 23-24 • Alma 26, 29 What missionary lessons do we learn from the experiences of this famous expedition?

  6. Abish—19:16-18, 28-34 • A more hardened and stiffnecked people—20:30 • Sword/word

  7. Building on beliefs others have

  8. How Abish must have felt…

  9. Why preach to “the hardened”? President Henry B. Eyring explained why we must still try to reach every soul: “Why should I speak to anyone about the gospel who seems content? What danger is there to them or to me if I do or say nothing? “Well, the danger may be hard to see, but it is real, both for them and for us. For instance, at some moment in the world to come, everyone you will ever meet will know what you know now. They will know that the only way to live forever in association with our families and in the presence of our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, was to choose to enter into the gate by baptism at the hands of those with authority from God. They will know that the only way families can be together forever is to accept and keep sacred covenants offered in the temples of God on this earth. And they will know that you knew. And they will remember whether you offered them what someone had offered you. It’s easy to say, “The time isn’t right.” But there is danger in procrastination. Years ago I worked for a man in California. He hired me, he was kind to me, he seemed to regard me highly. I may have been the only Latter-day Saint he ever knew well. I don’t know all the reasons I found to wait for a better moment to talk with him about the gospel. I just remember my feeling of sorrow when I learned, after he had retired and I lived far away, that he and his wife had been killed in a late night drive to their home in Carmel, California. He loved his wife. He loved his children. He had loved his parents. He loved his grandchildren, and he will love their children and will want to be with them forever. Now, I don’t know how the crowds will be handled in the world to come. But I suppose that I will meet him, that he will look into my eyes, and that I will see in them the question: “Hal, you knew. Why didn’t you tell me?” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1998, 41; or Ensign, Nov. 1998, 33).

  10. Give away all my sins “When we too are willing to give away all our sins to know him, and follow him, we too will be filled with the joy of eternal life” (Howard W. Hunter, Ensign, 5/63, p. 64). “Giving away all our sins is the only way we can come to know God. In contrast, those who hold back some of their sins, will be held back” (Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign, 11/91, 32). “Each of us must surrender our sins if we are to really know Christ. For we do not know Him until we become like Him” (Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, 11/83, p.43).

  11. What does Anti Nephi Lehi mean? “The name ‘Anti’ of ‘Anti-Nephi-Lehi’ may be a reflex of the Egyptian nty ‘he of, the one of.’ Thus, rather than having the sense ‘against,’ it has the meaning ‘the one of Nephi and Lehi’” (Stephen D. Ricks, “Anti-Nephi-Lehi,” in Dennis L. Largey, ed., Book of Mormon Reference Companion [2003], 67).

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