STORIES OF The

SEESBy Diane L. Mangum JESUS CHRIST

To chasten means to correct or The brother of Jared they could not talk to each discipline. 1 had a humble and other. Jared’s family and prayerful heart. He lived in friends were worried. Jared Four years passed, chasten him because he the wicked city of Babylon. asked his brother to pray 3 and the Lord came had forgotten to pray. The The Lord punished the and ask Heavenly Father to in a cloud to talk to the brother of Jared repented people of Babylon by let their language stay the brother of Jared and and began to pray often. changing their same and to lead them to a language so good place to live.

The Lord answered 2 the prayers of Jared’s brother. The Lord said that

Jared’s family and friends The should gather their flocks were and that He would guide the families of Jared, them to a promised land. his brother, and their friends. They journeyed The Jaredites traveled to the Americas in a long time until they barges and built reached the ocean. They homes and cities. set up their tents and lived on the seashore.

14 Friend The Brother of Jared From Ether 1–3. SEES JESUS CHRIST

The Lord told the 4 brother of Jared that the people needed to build barges, or ships, so they could cross the then the Lord would help The brother of Jared saw Behold, I am Jesus ocean and go to a choice him. the finger of the Lord and Christ.” land. The barges were The brother of Jared fell down in fear and sur- When the Jaredites small and light on the gathered 16 stones that prise. He did not know crossed the ocean their water, like ducks on a were clear like glass and the Lord had a body. ships had light from the pond. The went to The Lord saw the faith stones that had been ships were the top of of the brother of Jared touched by the finger of tight so no the moun- and allowed him to see the Lord. The brother of water could tain and His whole body. The Lord Jared wrote his sacred leak into prayed. He said, “I am he who was experiences on metal them, but had faith prepared from the foun- plates. The plates were inside the that the dation of the sealed until they ships it was Lord had world to came forth in very dark. power to do anything. He redeem my The brother the Book of The brother of Jared asked the Lord to touch people. of Jared’s name Mormon. ◆ prayed and asked how the stones and make them is not in the Book of they could get light in give light. Mormon, but it was revealed to Joseph their barges. The Lord told The Lord reached 5 Smith as Mahonri him to figure out how to out His hand and Moriancumer. solve the problem, and touched each stone.

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