The Knowledge of Your Fathers
Mormon’s final message to us in the Book of Mormon is found in Mormon 7. I was impressed as I read that today how he repeatedly instructed us to look to and remember our fathers. He wrote, “Know ye that ye are of the house of Israel…. Know ye that ye must come to the knowledge of your fathers…. If ye believe this ye will know concerning your fathers, and also the marvelous works which were wrought by the power of God among them. And ye will also know that ye are a remnant of the seed of Jacob; therefore ye are numbered among the people of the first covenant” (v2, 5, 9-10). He wanted us to look to our fathers and know that we are of the house of Israel. This reminds me of one of President Nelson’s teachings about who we are: “First and foremost, you are a child of God. Second, as a member of the Church, you are a child of the covenant. And third, you are a disciple of Jesus Christ. Tonight, I plead with you not to replace these three paramount and unchanging identifiers with any others...
