write it down.

I'm pretty sure I've addressed this topic before, if not only in my head.

As I was reading in 3 Nephi about Christ's visit to the people in the Americas, I was reflecting on what Christ chose to teach them during his comparatively short ministry among them. He gives the Sermon on the Mount to them, quotes Isaiah as well as Malachi, teaches the sacrament and baptism, as well as a handful of other things.

He also tells them to write the prophecies (and fulfillment of said prophecies) of Samuel the Lamanite.
"How be it that ye have not written this thing, that many saints did arise and appear unto many and did minister unto them . . . Jesus commanded that it should be written; therefore it was written according as he commanded." (3 Nephi 23:11-13).

Obviously those words were important for some purpose that the Lord had in mind. He was making a point before this as to how the prophecies of Isaiah had all be fulfilled and that the rest would be fulfilled.

It brought me to reflect on the things I write down and what their benefit might be in the future, if not to me but to someone else.

I won't go on a lot. Instead I'll just say that I need to write down the impressions, answers to prayers, warnings, and counsels that the Lord gives me. Then when they are fulfilled I can remember when I got them, what they meant to me at the time, and what their fulfillment means.



What we write down may end up being the only thing that someone knows about us in 100 years. Hopefully they know that we trusted the Lord and that we believed in his promises.