You're not going to be here. Can you open a mission call and it was for a 14 year mission to a violent people whose aim was to destroy you?

You might think twice about that kind of call.

Yet the Sons of Mosiah, Nephite princes who could have had a very different life chose to go to preach to the Lamanites,

a people described as wild and a hardened and ferocious people, a people who delighted in murdering the Nephites.

No wonder Mosiah was concerned about the safety of his sons

and sought counsel from the Lord who gave him a promise.

Let them go up, for many shall believe on their words,

and they shall have eternal life.

And I will deliver thy sons out of the hands of the Lamanites.

They would need that promise.

Hello, welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me Podcast.

We're Scott and Maureen Proctor and we're glad you could join us today to study Alma Chapter 17 through 22, some of our favorite

chapters in all the scriptures in a lesson called I will make an instrument of

thee. So back to the sons of Mosiah, why would they make a choice

to be gone so long and go to a hardened people? They knew the pain of having been the

vilest of sinners themselves, and they could not bear that

any human soul should perish, yay even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment

did cause them to quake and tremble.

What a missionary motivation.

Their motivation was profound and teaches us what to do about our enemies instead of nurse enmity and division, we turn enemies into friends.

One of their hopes was that they might cure them of their hatred towards the Nephites, that they might also be brought to rejoice in the

Lord their God, that they might become friendly to one another, that there should be no more

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