Grandmas Scripture Stories

After Jesus Cruxifiction the earth was covered in darkness for 3 days.  Several Nephites had gathered to the temple remembering the prophecies of the prophets that Christ would come.  They heard the voice of Heavenly Father 3 times.  They felt it inside their hearts.  The Savior came down from Heaven.  They got to see Him and feel his hands and feet.  He then called 12 apostles and gave them power to baptize the people after he returned back to heaven.  He then taught the people. Someday Jesus will come again.  

Samuel the Lamanite had prophecied of the signs of Jesus crucifiction and the believers watched and waited. Storms came, and earthquakes, great destruction, a mists of darkness. A voice came from heaven saying Wo unto the people.  It told the people He was Christ the Son of God that came to help us find the way to truth and happiness.  He told them I am the Light of the World.  He told them all who came to him and repented, He would receive.  He wanted all of them to turn to Him and find hope again.  He taught them that everything that had been prophesied that He would do, He had accomplished.  That He is our Savior and we can turn to Him and be saved.  

Gadianhi was the leader of the Gadianton Robbers.  He wrote a letter to Lachoneus (the leader of the Nephites) demanding their lands, their animals, their food…everything!  He uses the devices Satan uses.  1-He flatters, 2-He lies, 3- He calls him foolish, 4- He threatens, 5-He says it is all theirs anyway, and 6-then he says if they don’t listen and agree they will come destroy them!  Lachoneus is not afraid.  He knows God is on his side.  He knows with God we can do ANYTHING!  He tells the people the same thing our prophets and leaders tell us.  1- pray, 2- gather together, 3- fortify and protect, 4- repent.  The Gadianton Robbers come to war.  Their is a huge battle and the Nephites win.  It tells us they cry and are so grateful to God.  The know He protected them because of their obedience and repentance.  God will always be with us.  Even in really hard things, if we pray, and repent and obey.  

It had been 600 years since Lehi left Jerusalem.  Many of the Nephites were not righteous anymore.  Samuel the Lamanite came to Zarahemla to preach to the people and prophecy of the signs of Jesus birth.  He said there would be a night a day and a night as bringt as noon day.  Some believed, but most did not and even tried to kill Samuel.  5 years passed and the unbelievers started to say the time had passed.  They set a date that they would kill all the believers if the sign did not come.  When Nephi, the prophet, saw how wicked the people had become he prayed all day.  God told him that very night the sign would be given.  Jesus would be born.  That very night the sun went down but it was as light as noon day.  The next day the sun rose again and they knew that was the day Jesus was born.  A new star could be seen in the sky.  When prophets speak today,  They are teaching us the things Heavenly Father wants us to know.  Even if it takes a long time for those promises to be fulfilled, If we believe, we will be safe.  

Samuel the Lamanite was called to preach repentance to the Nephites who were not obeying God or following his teachings.  Some Nephites repented, most got angry and tried to hurt Samuel by shooting arrows at him or throwing rocks at him.  Samuel was not afraid, He was obeying God and that mattered most to him.  Samuel prophesied many things to the Nephites including the signs of his birth, which would happen in 5 years.  Samuel left and was never heard of around Zarahemla again.  Everything Samuel prophesied came true.  He was a prophet of God.

Nephi pours out his heart to God.  The Nephites will not repent.  God tells Nephi he sees how valiantly he is serving.  He tells Nephi whatever he prays for He will do, because he knows Nephi will only ask what God himself would ask.  Nephi prays for a famine.  After 2 years the people repent and recognize Nephi is a prophet of God.  

The prophet Nephi is so heartbroken about the wickedness of the Nephites (the Gadianton Robbers had overtaken the government) that he goes out and prays on his garden tower.  Some people in the city stopped to listen.  When Nephi noticed a crowd gathered he started to teach the people and prophesy.  Telling them if they did not repent they would all be destroyed.  Nephi told them their Chief Judge was murdered by his brother.  5 men ran off to see if that was true.  It was!  The Gadianton Robbers tried to get the people to believe Nephi had arranged with someone to kill the Chief Judge.  Nephi said to go and ask his brother if he had killed his brother.  He said He will act shocked but when you ask about the blood on his cloak he will confess.  Everything happened just as Nephi said it would.  Some people believed he had to be a prophet, but most did not  want to believe so explained it away.  We are so blessed to have prophets that teach us and warn us.  

After Pahoran’s death (remember that great leader who fought to retake the government with Moroni) he had 3 sons who each wanted to take his place as chief judge of the land.  There was an election and Pahoran Jr. was selected.  Paanchi, his brother was mad!  He got those who voted for him to rebel… they got Kishkumen to go and kill Pahoran the new chief Judge (his own brother).  Kiskumen made all those who had rebelled promise or covenant they would keep the murder a secret.  Kishkuman then waited for an opportunity to kill another chief judge when Helaman was elected.  The Book of Mormon tells us this was the start of the secret society called the Gadianton Robbers.  It tells us that this society caused the entire destruction of the Nephites.  Heavenly Father wants to warn us and  help us detect evil designs in our days.  The Holy Ghost will help guide us and keep us safe.

Nephi and Lehi were the sons of Helaman.  They were brothers who taught the word of God.  They converted 8,000 Lamanites because the word of God was so powerful in them.  Some of the people did not believe and threw them in jail.  The guards came to take them and kill them.  Nephi and Lehi were surrounded by fire.  The fire did not burn them.  All 300 of the prisoners were astonished.  The prison shook like an earthquake and yet it did not fall to the ground.  The prisoners were so afriad.  Aminadab had once been a Nephite and a member of God’s church.  He saw Nephi and Lehi’s faces.  HE told the other prisoners to pray.  All 300 prisoners were converted to God and became missionaries.