You're not going to be here. With only 531 pages, would you take four of those chapters and eight pages just to talk about one

wayward missionary story who committed a grievous sexual sin? Why would the Prophet

Mormon think it was so important to include this story for our day?

Let's explore this together.

Welcome to Meridian magazines Come Follow Me Podcast.

We're thrilled to be with you again this week. In fact, we're thrilled to be with you in your homes and cars and gathering places each and every week. We consider this a sacred time together. We feel it an honor to be invited into your study space and time and to go over

these scriptures and lessons together, exploring new insights and gaining deeper understanding.

Today we're going to talk about Alma the Younger's family,

his three sons, where two are faithful and one has gone astray.

It's interesting to note that Lehi had six sons and two of them went

astray, one third in each case. But there is something different in this story of Alma's

sons. We have a lot of stories in the

Book of Mormon as we've mentioned in previous podcast about repentant

sinners. This story of Corianton is a major one. Let's not miss this. It's a story for our times.

Here we have this incredible group of super missionaries heading to the apostate

Zoramites who once had the true Gospel of Jesus Christ and now they have strayed completely

away from the pure doctrines. This is a very personal mission to the Zoramites. They are

going there to try to recover them from their apostasy.

To emphasize how difficult this mission was and to underline Alma's faith, Mormon

inscribes into the record the prayer of Alma as they begin in earnest their preaching

among them.

He has seen their sinful and fallen state and he cries out in agony,

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