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Join us today as we begin our study of the Come Follow Me materials for this week considering the character of Mormon in the trying time he lived. We discuss how his qualities stood out and we reflect on the river Sidon and its role in the Book of Mormon.
John M Butler: “We first meet Mormon as a young boy of ten as he is visited by the prophet Ammaron, who perceives that Mormon is a ‘sober child’ and ‘quick to observe’ (Mormon 1:2). An alert and reverent child must have been as unusual in those days as it is in ours. Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith's mother, records that Joseph was ‘a remarkably quiet, well-disposed child’… From his own history, we see that Joseph is quick to observe the religious excitement around him and takes an active role in calling upon God for direction. Thus, both these men who became prophets were alert, reverent, and attentive to the nudgings of the Lord as boys. The Lord used them because they were spiritually awake and had learned in their youths to keep the commandments of God.”