Welcome to Part 2 with Professor Jack Welch.

Alma 36 through 38.

Speaking of looking at both sides here, I'm using paper scriptures.

I'm looking at verses 12 and verses 19 and they're straight across from each other.

President Boyd K Packer in April 2001 talked about verse 12.

He mentioned the words

um Racked and Harrowed and he said a rack

he described in painful detail what a rack was like an instrument of torture

and then he described what a harrow was with a spikes on it that is

dragged over hardened ground you know and how this was happening to his hardened heart so that God could plant a new seed.

But one of the things that on the other side in verse 19 he says I could remember my pains no more.

And I'll bet that all of us have heard this and maybe ask the question ourselves.

How do I know if I've been forgiven? I like the

clue it gives us here. I'd love this phrase. I could remember my pains no more

yay I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more.

It doesn't say you don't remember your sins anymore.

Alma is telling us about his sins.

But the memory of them didn't harrow him up. It didn't hurt

anymore. And that seems to be a result of this repentance is that, oh I remembered my sins but it didn't harrow me up anymore.

It didn't cause pain anymore and then verse 20 what joy and marvelous light I did behold. and my soul was filled with joy's exquisite as was my pain.

Do you see the same thing there?

Oh, absolutely. How do I know? I like that you brought that up. How do I know if I know if I've been forgiven of my sins? As we work towards

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