Purpose:
To encourage class members to follow the counsel of Church leaders, particularly those whom the Lord has called as prophets, seers, and revelators.
Reading Assignment:
Additional Reading:
- Bible Dictionary, “Seer,” 771
- Bible Dictionary, “Urim and Thummim,” 786–87
- The Father and the Family - Boyd K. Packer, April 1994
- Heed the Prophet's Voice - L. Tom Perry, October 1994
- The Holy Ghost - Robert D. Hales, April 2016
Questions to Ponder:
- Why did Limhi rejoice when he learned who Ammon was? (See Mosiah 7:12–15.)
- What message did Limhi share with his people after talking with Ammon? (See Mosiah 7:17–20, 29–33.)
- What does this reveal about Limhi’s qualities as a leader?
- Limhi told Ammon that he once sent 43 people to search for their brethren in Zarahemla (Mosiah 8:7).
- What did this group find instead? (See Mosiah 8:8–11; see also Ether 1:1–2.)
- Why would it be helpful for Limhi’s people—and for us—to “know the cause of [the] destruction” of the Jaredites? (See Mosiah 8:11–12.)
- How did Ammon respond to Limhi’s request? (See Mosiah 8:13–14.)
- What other titles did Ammon associate with the title of seer? (See Mosiah 8:16.)
- Whom do we sustain today as prophets, seers, and revelators?
- What are the roles of a seer? (See Mosiah 8:13, 17–18.)
- How do latter-day prophets, seers, and revelators fulfill these roles?
- How have latter-day prophets, seers, and revelators been “a great benefit” to you?
- Why are the Laminates wroth with the Nephites (See Mosiah 10:11–17.)
- How do the traditions of the past sometimes stir people up to hatred?
- What can we learn from Zeniff about overcoming feelings of hatred? (See Mosiah 9:1.)
- What can we do to honestly see the good in others?
- What were the results of Zeniff’s over-zealousness? (See Mosiah 9:3–12; 10:18.)
- What are some dangers of being overzealous, even in a good cause?
- How canwe be zealous in the Lord’s work without being overzealous?
- In their determination to obtain a part of the land of Nephi, Zeniff and his people “were slow to remember the Lord [their] God” (Mosiah 9:3).
- What finally led them to turn to the Lord? (See Mosiah 9:13–17.)
- How were they blessed when they remembered the Lord and prayed for deliverance? (See Mosiah 9:18; 10:19–21.)
- As members of the Church, we have made a covenant to “always remember” the Lord (D&C 20:77, 79).
- What are some things we can do that can help us keep this covenant?
- What kind of a ruler was Noah? (See Mosiah 11:1–19.)
- How did Noah influence the lives of his people? (See Mosiah 11:2, 5–7.)
- How did the people and Noah share the responsibility for their sinfulness?
- The Lord sent the prophet Abinadi to call Noah and his people to repentance (Mosiah 11:20).
- What warnings did the Lord give through Abinadi? (See Mosiah 11:20–25.)
- How did Abinadi fulfilled the role of a seer, as discussed earlier in the lesson.)
- How did Noah and his people respond to Abinadi’s warnings? (See Mosiah 11:26–28; see also Mosiah 12:13–15.)
- Why were the people angry with Abinadi and not with Noah, who had taxed them and caused them to support him in his iniquity? (See Mosiah 11:7, 29.)
- Why do some people today reject servants of the Lord, like Abinadi, in favor of people like Noah?
- Why is it important to recognize and follow prophets of God? (See Mosiah 8:16–18; D&C 1:38; 84:36–38.)
