Episode 13: You've done an awesome job, Enos!

The Book of Enos

¹ I, Enos, know that my father was a just man, who taught me in his language. ³ One day, I was hunting beasts in the forest, when I heard the words that my father often spoke. ⁴ My soul was hungry, and I knelt down in front of God and cried to him all day long, and I kept on crying when it became night. ⁵ Then a voice said “Enos, your sins are forgiven.”

⁷ I said, “How is that done?” ⁸ “By your faith in Christ,“ God said “whom you’ve never seen and who won’t be seen for many years.”

^9-13 When I heard these words, I wanted to help the Nephites. So I prayed for them. ¹⁴ But the Nephites wanted to destroy us and our records.

¹⁵ I asked God to preserve our records, and God said he’d give me whatever I asked for. ¹⁶ He said he’d preserve the records and show them to the Lamanites someday. ¹⁷ So my soul rested.

²⁰ Meanwhile, the Lamanites, led by their evil nature, became a wild, ferocious, and a bloodthirsty people, full of idolatry and filthiness, wandering around with short skin girdles on their loins, with their heads shaven. Many of them only ate raw meat, and they were always trying to destroy us.

²¹ The Nephites tilled the soil and grew grain and fruit, and raised cattle, goats, and horses. ²² There were exceedingly many prophets among us. But the people were stiff-necked and hard to understand. ²³ Only exceedingly great plainness of speech could save them from destruction.

²⁴ There were many wars between the Nephites and Lamanites.

²⁵ It was the year 420 BCE, and I was getting old. I look forward to the day that I die when God will say to me, “You’ve done an awesome job, Enos!”