Your Words and Works Teach Others How to Do Hard —Alma 53–63

Come, Follow Me: Book of Mormon 2024 (August 19–25)

When going to battle, the stripling warriors of Helaman remembered the words of their mothers and saw the works of their fathers. 

“Now, they never had fought yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God, would deliver them” (Alma 56:47).

“Yea, and they did obey and observe to perform every word of command with exactness; yea, and even according to their faith it was done unto them; and I did remember the words which they said unto me that their mothers had taught them” (Alma 57:21). 

“And now it came to pass in the second month of this year, there was brought unto us many provisions from the fathers of those my two thousand sons” (Alma 56:27).

• What did you learn from your parents on how to do hard things?

• How would your children describe your pattern of doing hard things?

• What words and works will they remember when they’re in a hard situation?

Do Hard Divinely Better Lesson #33: Consider the example you’re setting for others on how to do hard divinely better.