Hello on Shakin Saints, welcome back. I'm Giggard Halverson and this week we are beginning that portion of the Book of Mormon where we begin barely towards bountiful.

The second coming, well in their case the first coming of Jesus Christ is on the horizon.

In fact, next week we'll start Third Nephi,

and the week after that is when the Savior will come

among the Nephites.

So we are getting close, and I can't wait for it.

Today we are going to spend our time with Samuel the Lamanite.

And this is one of those figures in the Book of Mormon that we all seem to know and love.

Well, at least what we know of him we love, but I wish we knew more.

There's so much backstory that is nowhere in the text that leaves us kind of wondering and guessing where did he come from what I'm grateful

for is we don't have to wonder or guess at his message and that comes through

crystal clear in the chapters we'll be studying today which is Heeliman 13 through 16, the end of the book of Heiliman.

Last week we finished with Mormon interrupting the entire narrative to just vent for a full chapter

and give us the longest and thus we see statement in the entire

book of Mormon. Wrestling with the pride cycle and the devastation that he felt

watching that earlier civilization or watching his civilization barrel towards its own self-destruction.

Okay?

Now I remember President Irene sharing that when he was a young dad, his boys loved acting out this story with Dad.

President Irene was Samuel the Lamanite,

and his boys were the wicked knee fights,

and they would take aluminum foil or tin foil balls, you know, ball it up and then throw it at dad.

And unfortunately, as President Irene said, they were never fully scripturally accurate

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