Day 318

  • Principle: The Book of Mormon is the greatest tool to ‘convert the world.'

  • Book of Mormon Reading: 3 Nephi 29:1 - 30:2

  • Ezra Taft Benson said:

    • “Combined with the Spirit of the Lord, the Book of Mormon is the greatest single tool which God has given us to convert the world. If we are to have the harvest of souls … , then we must use the instrument which God has designed for that task—the Book of Mormon” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1984, 6–7; or Ensign, Nov. 1984, 7).

  • Jeffrey R. Holland taught:

    • “Mormon concluded his description of this majestic season [the visit of the Savior among the Nephites] … by testifying that when a record of [Jesus Christ’s] visit would come to the Gentiles (in the form of the Book of Mormon), then all might know that the covenant and promises to Israel of the last days were ‘already beginning to be fulfilled.’ …

      “God’s covenant will be kept with all of his covenant people. No one will be able to ‘turn the right hand of the Lord unto the left’ on this matter. And the call to the Gentiles, for which Christ’s visit to the Nephites published in the Book of Mormon is the ultimate latter-day declaration, is for them to claim the same covenant and promises” (Christ and the New Covenant [1997], 308).

  • Gordon B. Hinckley said

    • “If the world is to be improved, the process of love must make a change in [our] hearts. … It can do so when we look beyond self to give our love to God and others, and do so with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind” (“And the Greatest of These Is Love,” Ensign, Mar. 1984, 5).

  • What are the warnings given and the blessings promised by the Lord in these verses?

    • How have you seen these blessings in your life?

    • Remember to heed the warnings and look for the blessings promised in the Book of Mormon. 

  • Additional Study: