Sharla Goettl — Advertiser

Sharla Goettl is the author of Spiritual Resilience: Leading Our Youth to Go and Do, written to support parents teaching youth in the modern days. Now available through Deseret Book. She serves as a stake young women president in Oregon.

Sponsored: Reverse-engineer Nephi’s youthful testimony to teach your own family

By Sharla Goettl — Advertiser

September 01, 2021 01:01 PM MDT

While Nephi was growing up in Jerusalem, he did not know where the Lord would lead him. He grew and learned; he watched and listened. Yet later, when a dangerous task was placed before him, with his father-prophet waiting for his reply, Nephi was able to respond, “I will go and do the thing which the Lord hath commanded…” (1 Nephi 3:7). What had Nephi been taught that made it possible for him to respond in such a way?

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