Come Follow Me with Sam

Welcome to Come Follow me with Sam! We are embarking on the chapters that cover some pivotal changes for Lamanites and Nephites, and a lot of pieces moving around. There are so many lessons to learn from this! These next chapters don't tell a single narrative. They tell things as they happened when they happened. I will give some background, then jump into some different lessons. Where is everybody going!? Call out to sister Wright and her blog for talking about this. Please check out her page for this simple (hah!) diagram. Here is the breakdown: Journey-ings before the diagram (good to know) 1. Lehi and family go to promised land 2. Mulek and people go to promised land in Zarahemla 3. Nephi and friends leave first place for their safety and journey to a place they call the Land of Nephi. 4. centuries later, Mosiah I is told to leave the Land of Nephi. He and those who are faithful follow him. The rest presumably perish. Mosiah and the remnant of the Nephites travel...

Hello everyone, welcome to Come Follow Me with Sam! First, I sincerely apologize to my readers. I have missed a couple weeks and was late with my last post. I think Conference and Easter threw me off track and it is time to get back on again. Second, we are talking about King Benjamin and this AMAZING experience he helped walk the people through! Because this experience does not nicely fit itself into our habitual church structures, it is easy to miss the importance of what happens here. Although I didn't write about it , I have been studying and twitch-streaming with my brother about it and I sincerely believe this was a preparatory pivot point that changed the course of the Nephite nation. I believe this was in preparation for Alma's great work of establishing the churches among the people. It is really exciting. I hope this takes you beyond anything you have even thought about his amazing discourse before!! P.S. I'm already really tired of typing out King Benjamin....

Update - forgot to post this last week, so I will pot this and another this week. Hope you had a great General Conference! We did some special streaming which you can find at Twitch.tv/comefollowmejosephandsam for the next 2 weeks. Welcome to Come Follow Me with Sam! For those paying close attention, you probably noticed I'm changing the order of the weekly topics a bit. Here is the schedule: week of 3/29 (today)             Special topic! A deep dive into this part of the civilization week of 4/05 (conference)    Easter and conference commentary week of 4/12 (Easter)            Mosiah 1-3, resume normal schedule Great! A lot of stuff is happening during the pivotal time of King Benjamin in the book of Mormon so lets talk about the cultural and the spiritual changes. A note for all readers that I am not an expert in culture and we don't have a lot of information on what was really going on, so much of this...