Alma and Amulek: Examples of Humility

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Green Bug in a Green House

Not too much to report this week. we worked, we sweated, then we sweated some more. San Felipe is sweet!! We were with Priscila, the Recent convert with more health problems than my companion has hair (he's balding, so that's not saying much) is continuing in the same cycle. She gets sick, and she continues working. then she can't do ANYTHING and she HAS to rest, so she sends her kids off to someone elses house. She starts feeling okay and misses her kids so she brings em back and starts working, even though she's still sick. This has been happening for three or four weeks now... Every time we went over we told her of the HUMILITY it takes to accept help. The Savior did it. He accepted the annointing from Mary and he accepted that someone else carried His cross to Calvary. He accepted the devotion of his disciples. Sometimes the "crosses of this world" that we must learn to despise is the notion of independence, of I do it and noone else.

Tea Cup Made from Tires

Alma and Amulek demonstrated this type of humility in Ammonihah. In the beginning of chapter 14, they had just finished speaking to Zeezrom, and he and many others started to repent. The rest of the city's leaders conspired against them and the power of God which was in them. in verses 3,4, and 5, tAlma and Amulek were thrown in prison injustly. How do you think that would have felt? How have you felt that kind of indignation or injustness in your life? Why? What did Alma and Amulek do in order to forgive their accusers? Now let's read verses 8 and 9. How would you feel knowing you had called down miracles from heaven before, but couldn't in this situation? Keep in mind that Amulek's own wife and children very well could have been among the victims. How useless or impotent would you feel? Amulek expresses this in verse 10, but what is Alma's response in verse 11? How hard would that have been? How can we use that same perspective to overcome our setbacks? our feelings of uselessness? of impotence? Then read verse 13. How can we say that in the face of trial? How can we show it?