Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Family scripture fun

We have recently started reading the Book of Mormon again. This morning we where reading in 1 Nephi 19. At the beginning of this chapter Nephi is explaining why he is making a second set of plates. Here is verse 3:
"And after I had made these plates by way of commandment, I, Nephi, received a commandment that the ministry and the prophecies, the more plain and precious parts of them, should be written upon these plates; and that the things which were written should be kept for the instruction of my people, who should posses the land, and also for other wise purposes, which purposes are known unto the Lord."

After reading this Dad stopped and asked Jon and Emma if they knew what the other wise purpose was. Emma wasn't sure but Jon said, in his enthusiastic morning voice, "the 116 pages"! We talked about that for a moment and then Jon gave us this narrative of Martin Harris going to look for the 116 pages at home.
"We must go and get some things first, yes, things to help us. Argggggggggggggggg! Where is it? Where iss it? Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost! We must search for it, it's lost! What has it got in its pocketses?!?"


Needless to say we all had a very good laugh!

3 comments:

Andrew said...

family scriptures really has come leaps and bounds

Marylois said...

Jonny was continuing with this dialog: Joseph Smith asks, "What is it! What have you lost!"
Martin replies, "It mustn't ask us! Not its business! It's Lossssssst!"

Rebekah said...

Ha ha ha! That's almost as good as Al's Gore.