I've got a few questions for you today. First, can people really change? Second, what

should we do with the wayward? And third, have you ever cried during a movie?

I'm Jared Halverson and welcome back to another Come Follow Me Book of Mormon study on Unshaken.

Today we'll be discussing Mosiah, Chapter 25 through 28.

Focusing on the consolidation of all of these various groups of people we've met so far in

Mosiah as they reunite in Zarahemla and also on the story of Alma the Younger and the

Sons of Mosiah, their attempts to destroy the Church and the story of their change and conversion.

What happens in these chapters will affect the rest of the story of the Book of Mormon going forward.

Particularly the powerful missionary chapters we'll see later in the book of Alma.

But let's start with that last question, whether or not you've ever cried in a movie.

Now it doesn't have to be a movie.

Expand the possibilities. You could add plays or books. Anything where you're presented

with characters that you seem to come to love to the point that their sorrows become

your own. Their successes feel like personal victories or their death

is just as devastating as if it were really happening. My kids sometimes say they've

never seen me cry in a movie but I don't think they're looking hard enough. I often get emotional,

but typically it's when characters have really come to life for me to begin with.

But unfortunately so many movies today spend so little time on character development that you don't really care what happens to them when the action immediately starts to break forth.

On the other hand, when a character truly becomes three-dimensional to you, when they've come to life, then

anything that happens to them really does feel like it's happening to you.

I remember in the movie Castaway, falling in love with Wilson. Remember him? It, the volleyball with the bloody handprint.

When Tom Hanks finally tried to get off the island and Wilson fell overboard and began floating away.

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