Assess Your Learning 10

The Book of Mormon; 1 Nephi–Moroni

Reflecting on and assessing your spiritual learning can help you draw closer to the Savior and strengthen your conversion. This lesson is intended to help you evaluate the progress and growth you have experienced during your study of the Book of Mormon this year.

Your study of the Book of Mormon

Over the past year in seminary, you have studied the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.

In this lesson, you will have the opportunity to explain some of what you learned and felt and to evaluate how the Book of Mormon has helped you become more converted to Jesus Christ.

How do you feel about the Book of Mormon?

President Russell M. Nelson invited us to think about three questions related to the Book of Mormon:

First, what would your life be like without the Book of Mormon? Second, what would you not know? And third, what would you not have? (Russell M. Nelson, “The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2017, 61)

1. Answer the following questions:

   • How would you respond to each of President Nelson’s questions?

   • How were your feelings about the Book of Mormon impacted as you studied it this year?

What do you understand about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ?

President Russell M. Nelson described one of the key roles of the Book of Mormon:

Something powerful happens when a child of God seeks to know more about Him and His Beloved Son. Nowhere are those truths taught more clearly and powerfully than in the Book of Mormon. (Russell M. Nelson, “The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2017, 61)

Take a moment to reflect on what you have learned about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ as you have studied the Book of Mormon this year. You could review your scriptures and study journal for truths about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that you may have marked or made notes about through the year. List three or four truths that were especially meaningful to you in your study journal.

Find at least one scripture passage that supports each truth you listed in your study journal. Write the scripture reference next to each truth, and explain how you could use the scripture passage to teach that truth.

If needed, you could review some of the following scripture passages:

• 2 Nephi 9:19–23

• Alma 5:33–34

• Alma 12:32–34

• Alma 34:8–10

• 3 Nephi 11:9–15

• Mormon 9:9–13

2. Answer the following questions:

   • What are at least two truths you have learned about Heavenly Father or Jesus Christ from your study of the Book of Mormon?

   • Why do you think it is important to understand these truths?

How has the Book of Mormon influenced the way you live your life?

Read the following statement by the Prophet Joseph Smith (1805–44), looking for what he taught about the power of the Book of Mormon:

© 1998 David Lindsley

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. (Book of Mormon introduction; see also History of the Church, 4:461)

To “abide by its precepts” means to live the principles and teachings contained in the Book of Mormon. Reflect for a few moments on how your thoughts, attitudes, or actions have been influenced because of what you have learned from the Book of Mormon.

3. Answer at least one of the following questions:

   • How has your study of the Book of Mormon helped you feel closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ?

   • What are some specific teachings you have been able to apply from your study of the Book of Mormon?

   • What blessings have you experienced as you have regularly studied the Book of Mormon?