Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Jan Martin, 2nd Nephi, Chapter 3 through 5.

Jen, we have been keeping you for a while, but we don't want to miss out on Chapter 5.

Another important chapter in this... but we don't want to miss out on chapter five.

Another important chapter in this lesson.

Very important chapter.

I would like to just keep our covenant focus here

because I believe Nephi who's writing about all of this later on he comes back and

writes about it from hindsight but he's really purposely trying to keep the focus on the

covenant. One of the interesting things about his prayer in chapter 4 if you look at

verse 31 is he wants to be delivered from the situation with his brothers, but like all good vassals, he takes the problem to the

suzerin and says, I need you to do this for me, but I'm not going to tell you how to

do it, because that's your job but I would like to be delivered from this

situation and then when you hit chapter five it's really important to help readers

see that it doesn't get better right away. Now Nephi's in a better

place emotionally because he's worked through that, but when you hit verse one, we have,

I neified to cry unto the Lord my God,

so he keeps having to pray about it,

and the anger of his brethren is increasing

when you look in verse two. That's not what I asked for. Yeah, an important

principle here about adversity is take your problems to your God and lay them at his feet, but realize it may take a little bit of time

for the solutions to come and sometimes things get worse before they get better and you have me

if I doing that but the important thing I want to point out is if he is the

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