and said to him, "I pray you will be like this river, always flowing into the fountain of all righteousness!"
Then my father told Lemuel, "I pray you will be like this valley, firm, steadfast and immovable in keeping the Lords commandments!"
My father said these things because Laman and Lemuel were both very stubborn. They kept complaining, saying my father was a foolish, visionary man, and that he'd taken them from all their comforts and wealth to die in the wilderness.
They complained because they knew nothing about how God deals with His children, and also because they were the oldest sons, feeling they had the right to complain. Like the Jews, they thought the great city of Jerusalem could not be destroyed.
However, Lehi, being filled with the Spirit, spoke to them with the Lord's power. This caused them to shake for fear of His judgments, and for a little while they stopped complaining.
Lehi and his family camped in the valley he had named Lemuel.
Although very young, I had great desires to know God's will. And so I prayed with faith and the Lord gave me understanding. That's why I didn't rebel against my father.
I told my older brother Sam what the Lord had told me by His Holy Spirit, and Sam believed me. But Laman and Lemuel didn't believe me, and in my sorrow over their stubbornness, I prayed for the.
The Lord answered my prayer, saying,
- "You are blessed, Nephi, because of your faith and humility before me. I have prepared the best land on earth for you, and if
