Day 303

  • Principle: Remember

  • Book of Mormon Reading: 3 Nephi 17:21 - 18:14

  • Over 200 times in the Book of Mormon is a form of the word remember used.  (Thats more than the word ‘repent’ is used.)  As you read chapter 8 verses 1-11 what do you learn about the ordinance of the sacrament and the importance of remembering?

    • Jeffrey R. Holland gave a few suggestions on ways to remember the Lord during the sacrament.  


      • “We could remember the Savior’s premortal life and all that we know Him to have done. …

        “We could remember the simple grandeur of His mortal birth to just a young woman. …

        “We could remember Christ’s miracles and His teachings, His healings and His help. …

        “… We could remember that Jesus found special joy and happiness in children and said all of us should be more like them. …

        “We could remember that Christ called His disciples friends. …

        “We could—and should—remember the wonderful things that have come to us in our lives and that ‘all things which are good cometh of Christ’ (Moroni 7:24). …

        “On some days we will have cause to remember the unkind treatment He received, the rejection He experienced, and the injustice … He endured. …

        “… We can remember that Jesus had to descend below all things before He could ascend above them, and that He suffered pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind that He might be filled with mercy and know how to succor His people in their infirmities” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1995, 90–91; or Ensign,Nov. 1995, 68–69).

  • Dallin H. Oaks expanded on the sacrament and the relationship with the ministering of angels

    • “These ordinances of the Aaronic Priesthood are also vital to the ministering of angels. …

      “… Angelic messages can be delivered by a voice or merely by thoughts or feelings communicated to the mind. …

      “… Most angelic communications are felt or heard rather than seen. …

      “In general, the blessings of spiritual companionship and communication are available only to those who are clean. … Through the Aaronic Priesthood ordinances of baptism and the sacrament, we are cleansed of our sins and promised that if we keep our covenants we will always have His Spirit to be with us. I believe that promise not only refers to the Holy Ghost but also to the ministering of angels, for ‘angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ’ (2 Nephi 32:3). So it is that those who hold the Aaronic Priesthood open the door for all Church members who worthily partake of the sacrament to enjoy the companionship of the Spirit of the Lord and the ministering of angels” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1998, 50–51; or Ensign, Nov. 1998, 38–39).

  • What can you do now that will help you be ready to take the sacrament?

  • Why should you remember the covenants you have made?  (What are the covenants you have made?)

  • Additional Study:

    • Elaine S. Dalton, “Remember Who You Are!”, April 2010

    • Come unto Jesus, Hymns No. 117

    • If with All Your Hearts, Children’s Songbook No. 15