Some Stuff I Taught in Seminary

Seminary has been over for awhile now, but I wanted to record some of the coolest points that I was able to teach the kids this year.

1) Why didn't the Lord leave the Gold Plates on the earth for us to use as evidence for the truth of the Book of Mormon?

One reason is because, it would be harder to guard them than that Faberge egg in the "Ocean's 12" movie. Just think how much money they would be worth.

On May 27, when I taught this, gold was worth $1,211 per ounce.
If the Gold Plates weighed 60 pounds, that equals 960 ounces.

960 ounces X $1211 per ounce equals $1,162,560.00


2) The "plan" is not mentioned at all in the Bible.
The plan of salvation, the plan of happiness, the plan of redemption, etc., is mentioned 2 times in Pearl of Great Price, 2 times in the Doctrine and Covenants, and mentioned 42 times in the Book of Mormon.


3) King Benjamin had an angel for an alarm clock. Mosiah 3:2. That same angel told him what to say in his speech from the tower (wouldn't that be a great help when you have been assigned to give a talk?)

4) Mosiah 3:13, Alma 24:14, Alma 39:17-19 It was just as hard for them to accept Christ before his coming as it is for us to accept Christ after his coming.

5) How great a prophet was Alma the Younger?
120 pages out of 491 pages of the Book of Mormon are about him. One-fourth of the pages in the Book of Mormon cover his ministry, and yet his ministry was only twenty years out of 1021 years total.

6) I love the hidden meanings of words, that Joseph Smith could not have known when he was translating the book. The Anti-Nephi-Lehis got kicked out of the Lamanite lands, and the Nephites gave them the land of Jershon to live in. The word "Jershon" in Hebrew means "Land of the Expelled."