“Assess Your Learning 1: 1 Nephi 1–15” Book of Mormon Student Manual (2024)
“Assess Your Learning 1: 1 Nephi 1–15” Book of Mormon Student Manual
Assess Your Learning 1
This lesson is intended to help you evaluate the goals you have set and the growth you have experienced thus far during your study of the Book of Mormon.
Study the Book of Mormon Daily
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What are some things you do every day or every night?
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What could happen if you skipped these activities for a day or longer?
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Why is daily scripture study something we should strive to do?
Choose one of the following to describe how your daily study of the Book of Mormon is going:
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My study feels meaningful and has been consistent.
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My study is good when it happens but isn’t happening very regularly.
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I am consistent with my study but don’t get a lot out of it.
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I am struggling to understand what I read and rarely study on my own.
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I have not done anything to work toward a scripture study goal.
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Other: explain your answer.
It is natural to have obstacles come up with a daily goal like this. The important thing is to keep trying.
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What has gone well with your study of the Book of Mormon? What would you like to do better or differently?
Personal thoughts and feelings about the Book of Mormon
Lehi’s Dream
Consider how different parts of Lehi’s dream might help the individuals in the following scenarios:
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A young man is spending time with a group of people who choose to break the Word of Wisdom and pressure him to do the same.
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A young woman thinks she will take her scripture study more seriously when her stressful life calms down.
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A young man starts to feel ashamed of his membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he hears others mocking people who are religious.
You can keep the commandments
During the lesson on 1 Nephi 3, you may have made a goal to be more obedient to a commandment that has been difficult to keep. Reflect on your progress toward this goal, and record your thoughts in your study or personal journal. Consider the following questions as you reflect and write:
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How is your effort to obey this commandment going?
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What successes or obstacles have you experienced?
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How might you adjust your plan?
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How have you been blessed for your efforts?
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How has the Lord prepared a way for you to be obedient?
If you haven’t thought of a commandment that may be difficult for you to keep, think about one now. Decide what actions you could take to keep it more fully.
President Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency taught that Nephi’s trust in the Lord can give us encouragement when we find it difficult to obey the Lord’s commandments:
The young Nephi in the Book of Mormon stirs in us a desire to develop trust in the Lord to obey His commandments, however hard they appear to us. Nephi faced danger and possible death when he said these words of trust that we can and must feel steadily in our hearts: “I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them” [1 Nephi 3:7]. (Henry B. Eyring, “Trust in God, Then Go and Do,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2010, 71)