A few quotes have been on my mind lately. The first is from Hugh Nibley: “History is all hindsight; it is a sizing up, a way of looking at things. It is not what happened or how things really were,…

We go through the slaying of Laban, and how pondering enabled Nephi to make a very tough decision and a mission story about a string of events that led to a bloody encounter.

Men are that they might have joy. (2 Nephi 2:25) The word “joy” as found in the following standard works: D&C: 42 times New Testament: 72 times Old Testament: 137 times Book of Mormon: 145 times “…my soul was filled…