by Terrie Lynn Bittner | May 27, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi experienced his first vision as a teenaged boy. An angel instructed him in many aspects of the gospel, including the importance of the Bible, which of course, was not yet complete, since the vision happened around 600 BC. In this...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | May 22, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
Lehi’s story, as recorded in the Book of Mormon, begins in 600 B.C., long before the Savior’s birth. However, this great prophet learned of the Savior and his son, Nephi, recorded the vision so it could be kept for our day. When the Savior came to the Nephites, it was...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | May 22, 2008 | Mormon Scriptures
Nephi is the first writer in the Book of Mormon. He was a teenager when the events recorded began, but didn’t begin recording them until he was much older. As a teenager, his father had a powerful vision of the Savior and of God’s love for us. Nephi was a young man of...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | May 21, 2008 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
Lehi was the first prophet of the Book of Mormon. Early in the timeline of the story of his life as a prophet, about 600 B.C., we learn of an extraordinary vision he received, known today as the Vision of the Tree of Life. In this vision, Lehi saw the Savior’s birth,...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | May 19, 2008 | Becoming a New Member
Laman and Lemuel were the two oldest sons of the prophet Lehi. Lehi was the first prophet of the Book of Mormon, a man called to cry repentance to the Jews, and then instructed by God to take his family and only the most essential possessions and flee into the...
