Alma 37 & 38

I'm going to combine these two chapters because Alma in chapter 38 reminds his son Shiblon of the things he told Helaman in the chapter before hand. In chapter 37, Alma speaks to Helaman and tells him that if he does not listen to the Lords commandments he will not prosper in the land but if he does listen, he will have many blessings and many things in his life will work in harmony with each other. If we make the promise to God to be obedient unto him he promises back to us to give us blessings. If we break our promise then God does not need to follow through with his half because we were too lazy to do our part of the deal.

In seminary, Sis M had us write a list of small things that make us or other people happy (I'm not sure how "I didn't die last night" got on there but I deem "Reese's" acceptable). We then were asked to write the big impact that doing these things can have. The right side of the board is a little hard to read, iPod cameras are no Nikon cameras. The Big Impact side lists "knowledge of God, Laminites saved, knowledge of salvation, and convinced many of the error of their ways". So those are some of the small things we can do to obey God and some of the huge things he will do back for us!  In chapter 37:36 I found a few words that were very powerful to me, "yea let the affections of thy heart be placed upon The Lord forever". Love our Lord and show him that you love Him by being kind to his children and kind to yourself.

XOXO,

Chloe.