Search Diligently

Drew and I had to speak in Sacrament meeting last Sunday. The scripture we were given to speak about was D&C 90:45, "Search diligently, pray always, be believing, and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another." I would like to share a story that I shared in my talk about searching diligently. A couple weeks ago, we were having family scripture study. We were reading in 1st Nephi about Nephi and his brothers going to get the plates of brass. The kids were laughing and carrying on and not paying any attention whatsoever, so we stopped and asked them what we had just read about. Of course, they didn't know, so we told them we were talking about Nephi and his brothers. We then asked them if they knew what Nephi's brothers names were. They said no. We told them and asked them again. The only one they could remember was Sam. So we told them the names again, and still they couldn't remember the other names. This went on a few more times, and finally Drew told Ethan that before he could watch cartoons the next day, he had to find out what the other brothers names were. The next morning, Drew came home from his church meetings and found Ethan sitting in the front room with his Book of Mormon. He asked him if he found the answer, and Ethan said "Dad, it's Laman and Lemuel." He had looked in the scriptures on his own and found the answer he needed. I was so proud of him. And of course I cried while I was telling the story in sacrament meeting. The talks went better than we expected, so I'm hoping that we won't have to speak again for a long while.