You're not going to be here. After Lehi had his dream of the tree of life, his sons had some choices and based on those in the next few hours had radically different

experiences. Laimen and Lemuel went to their tent and fought about the meaning of

the dream and Nefai was swept up to a mountain and given a vision.

What Laimler and Lemiele missed out on in insisting on their war of words.

Hello, we are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian magazine's Come Follow Me Podcast.

Our lesson today is Armed with Righteousness and the Power of God, and covers First Nephi

Nefai Chapter 11 through 15, where we see Nephi's remarkable vision.

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It's funny how seemingly small choices

accumulating one after another make so much difference. When Lehi had his

dream, wouldn't you have been tempted to say,

Wow, that's incredible, I'm sure glad he told me about it.

Doesn't it seem like it would have been enough to experience this secondhand?

You might have thought something like that could never happen to me,

or it would take so much work to draw close enough to the Lord to receive revelation.

Nephi did not think that, and we have been blessed by what he did instead.

His choice gives us a pattern for how to receive revelation. First, Nephi desired to know the things which his

father had seen. Desire is a pivotal word here. We are not talking about some lackluster pathetic wish that crosses his mind and then leaves.

He is passionate and fervent and wants to know God so much that he puts this first over discomfort or ease or anything else.

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