Brothers and Sisters, to help help enhance our weekly study of the Come Follow Me lesson, our wonderful Gospel Doctrine Instructors are providing us with their thoughts and insights gained during their study. The excerpt below is from Melissa Rooley.

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Good Morning Brothers and Sisters!  I sure miss seeing all of you and hope that you are all well enough. 

I say this every lesson, but we have started studying one of my favorite sections in the Book of Mormon.  Who doesn’t love reading about King Benjamin?  I am sure that we all wish that we could have brought our families and our tents and listened to King Benjamin speak to us in person. 

This week, I had a tender experience as I listened to Elder Bednar relate how he hears the voice of the Lord.  #Hear Him   https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/blog/hearing-him-with-our-minds-and-our-hearts

The Spirit spoke to my heart as I watched / listened to Elder Bednar and I knew that what he was saying was true for me also.  The spirit helped me want to be better at receiving revelation.  My heart was changed.  The video is about 1 minute and 30 seconds long and I had tears in my eyes.  The spirit helped me to see some things in my life that I could change and I realized my own carnal state and how I have fallen short of my potential.  I have been blessed to have had the gospel in my life since I was a small child.  I can only imagine how it must have felt to have heard the joyful message of the gospel for the first time, as the people of King Benjamin’s day did.  I am so grateful for the message of hope, love and forgiveness that is found in learning about how to become more like our Savior. 

I hope that you enjoyed your readings this week.  I hope that you let your study be guided by the spirit.  I often start looking at footnotes, then other scriptures, then talks and then before I know it, I am not even in the chapter that … Read the rest