Nephi

Mormons believe salvation is earned by grace, but not entirely. Mormons also believe salvation requires good works. The Book of Mormon in Nephi 25:23 says , “For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” The difficulty with this version…

that stuff. Then we all had to say are names and what we all liked to do. Josh liked play sports, his favorite sport was basketball. I don’t like basketball, strike one for this friendship. He moved from Star Valley, a big city a few hours away from Nephi, Wyoming, where I live. I have been there a few times for shopping with my mom. When he said he liked Pac-Man, I got excited. I like Pac-Man, maybe we could be friends after all. Luckily nothing else happened in first period. I been worried for…

In my life at this moment there are a lot of things that I need to have faith with such as to who I should date and marry, what major I should have and whether or not I should continue to go to school here at BYU-Idaho. I feel like that I should make a plan and stick to it because if it is a bad plan then the Lord will let me know if it will hurt me. Sometimes we need to be doing or going towards a goal before the Lord will let us know if we are on the right path. The main change that I thought…

Many assumptions are made when it comes to Christianity. Is Jesus Christ human, divine, or both? How do we know the answer? Different people believe different things but there is proof in not only the Bible, but also many other sources that Jesus Christ is both fully human and fully divine. “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God; He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made”, John 1:1-3 (2…

The Pearl of Great Price is an ideal place to learn about agency because it shows us the story of our first brothers and sisters to practice using agency in the flesh, through Adam and Eve’s experience falling from the presence of God and exercising their agency outside the Garden of Eden. Additionally, we learn about how we had agency even before we came to Earth and received our bodies through the knowledge we can gain about our preearth life, and our specific choice to follow our…

This July I had the privilege to walk in the footsteps of the Mormon pioneers in Martin’s Cove. Although the Trek was somewhat difficult, I had many great spiritual experiences. While pulling and pushing a handcart for 7 miles a day was difficult, surprisingly, the hardest part of the Trek for me was enduring the 12 hour long car ride back, because I had to ride in the deacon’s car with them singing along to Taylor Swift, and singing the pillow pet commercial theme song. The experiences that I…

direction to ‘tend the garden’ (Genesis 2:15 KJV “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it”. It would appear that work is meant for our own good, but work did get harder after the transgression. In 2 Nephi, Chapter 2 (Book of Mormon), God tells us why he never promised us an easy life: “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy” and it goes on to say that you cannot have true joy if you know no misery. You can never…