Week 7




Day 43

GET BACK ON SCHEDULE

Use your reading chart to find the chapters you still need to read to be caught up through: Alma 11 or If you’re up to date with your reading, take time to study: Alma 5

What are some of the questions Alma asks in order to ponder the process of becoming converted or reborn?





Day 44

Read: Alma 12-13

Mark: Alma 13:2-4

“God has saved for the final inning some of His strongest and most valiant children…Make no mistake about it – you are a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the

faithful in such a short period of time than there is of us…The final outcome is certain – the forces of righteousness will finally win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle – and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to…our foreordained mission?

~ President Ezra Taft Benson

To what callings do you think you’ve been foreordained?





Day 45

Read: Alma 14-16

Mark: Alma 14:10-11

“The right question to ask is not why good people have trials, but how shall good people respond when they are tried?”

~ Elder Marion D. Hanks

“Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long suffering and self-mastery. The sufferings of our Savior were part of his education.”

~ President Spencer W. Kimball

How do you respond to adversity?



Day 46

Read: Alma 17-18

Mark: Alma 17:2-3

“Fasting can help us overcome personal flaws and sins. It can help us overcome our weaknesses—help them become strengths. Fasting can help us become more humble, less prideful, less selfish, and more

concerned about the needs of others. It can help us see more clearly our own mistakes and weaknesses and help us be less prone to criticize others…Throughout the scriptures the term fasting is usually combined with prayer… Fasting without prayer is just going hungry for 24 hours. But fasting combined with prayer brings increased spiritual power.”

~ Elder Carl B. Pratt

What experiences have you had with fasting?

Day 47

Read: Alma 19-20

Mark: Alma 20:17

“Anger is not an expression of strength. It is an indication of one’s inability to control his thoughts, words, his emotions… When the weakness of anger takes over, the strength of reason leaves.”

~ President Gordon B. Hinckley

When is it most difficult to control your anger? Why is it important to stay in control of your thoughts, words, and actions?





Day 48

Read: Alma 21-23

Mark: Alma 22:15-18

“No part of walking by faith is more difficult than walking the road of repentance. However, with ‘faith unto repentance,’ we can push roadblocks out of the way, moving forward to beg God

for mercy… One simply surrenders, caring only about what God thinks, not what ‘they’ think… Giving away all our sins is the only way we can come to know God.”

~ Elder Neal A. Maxwell

What are you willing to give to know Him?





Day 49

Read: Alma 24-26

Mark: Alma 26:11-12

“As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. What a great blessing to be created in his image and know of our true potential in and through him! What a great blessing to know that in his strength we can do all things!”

~ Elder Marvin J. Ashton

What do you think some of the “mighty miracles” may be that the Lord will work through you?