Week 3

The three themes that stuck out to me the most in these five chapters in Alma were faith (Alma 32 duh), prayer, and the atonement. I love to read Alma 32 and ask myself those questions to gage where my faith is at. I love the lesson that humility is required in order to have sincere faith. I also like in verse 28 that it says the word is like unto a seed. I always compared faith to the seed because of the primary song but one time one of my mission companions pointed out to me that it compared the word to a seed and not faith. The word and the Spirit begin to swell and grow and that's how you know that the word or the scripture/principle is good and comes from God. Once you see this prayer/experiment work then your faith will increase as well. 
Prayer was also a big focus in Alma 33. It’s crazy that they thought they could only pray on their rameumptom and nowhere else. Also, let me just say how bazaar there memorized prayer was. How did they stray so far so fast?? I love that they are so excited when they learn that they can pray to God even though they are outcasts. They can pray to God anytime and anywhere. This is such an amazing blessing and miracle. Can you imagine if we could only pray at church? How sad! 
The other big theme was the atonement. This is perhaps the most complicated of all gospel miracles. The atonement was the great and last sacrifice which fulfilled the law of Moses. No more blood was to be spilt or animal sacrifices to be made. But the sacrifices we make are now a broken heart and a contrite spirit. We must submit our will to the Lords. We must keep His commandments and live in a way that pleases Him. I know as we do this God will bless us more than we can imagine and we will happier than we have ever been before.