Jacob’s Big Idea and The Missionary who Prayed and Prayed

Enos 1:5 And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed.

If you recall, Jacob’s big idea was to try and teach Laman and Lemuel about Jesus. And so he decided to send missionaries to the Lamanites. He called it Project Love My Brother, because, remember, the Lamanites were his brothers. They were the family of Laman and Lemuel, his two oldest brothers. And though we don’t know who Jacob sent, he surely would have sent the best and the brightest. And so he probably would have sent his own son, Enos.

“Enos,” he would have said, “I know I am getting old, and you are helping to take care of me and the family, but I need you to go and take care of someone else for a while. Because there are people out there, who need you more than we do. They are the Lamanites. And you will have to walk miles and miles and miles to find them. But I will give you directions. And you will be a missionary.”

Missionary, a definition:

Missionaries are people who g…