REMEMBER

We are on Mosiah chapter 27 and boy oh boy, we're dragging dragging dragging with our reading.  This past week it felt like the Plague has intruded in our house.  Yes, almost every one was sick like a dog and Mahonrai starts it every single time.  Except of course Mele Vasiti, Fusi, Leveni and Leli..  The rest of us were  miserably sick.

At this point of our reading, Alma the younger and the sons of King Mosiah became hinderances to the church.  They went about secretly persecuting the believers and the church.  They led away many from the church.  Alma the older spend unending hours on his knees and in his heart praying for his son.  That God will bring him back to him.  After much fasting and prayers from loving parents, the Lord finally send an angel to smite them down and to turn them around.

One of the words that the angel told Alma the younger to do, is to REMEMBER.  The word brings back memories, thoughts of the past, a reminder and of being reminded.  REMEMBER!  When we remember who we are and our origins, then it will be easy for us to make the right choices.  But when we forget, then we become thoughtless, self-centered and selfish simply because we indulge in our own fascinations and have forgotten things that we stand for.  Our foundations and what makes us who we are.  

The angel told Alma the younger to remember his father and everything that he went through in the city of Helam.  How they were in bondage and the Lord delivered them from the Lamanites and also the hands of wicked Amulon, whose men, kidnapped the daughters of the Lamanites.

We need to remember who we are all the time.   

REMEMBER is an important word.