Nephi

This is a tribute to one of my real life heroes. Nephi was a man who actually lived. General understanding places him at about 16-20 years old in Jerusalem at 600 b.c. in the reign of king Zedekiah, king of Judah (the Jews) just before the Babylonian captivity. He was a man of large stature and unwavering righteousness. He led his family away from Jerusalem before it was destroyed and they travelled all the way to the American continent (I kid you not). There he established a pre-Aztec/Mayan/Incan people called the Nephites. We know of him because we have been blessed with, basically his own personal journal, and as you read it you find out just how much of a legend he really was. This tradition of writing was continued through his descendants for about one thousand years until the last man to write in it condensed and compiled all their accounts into one book. This last man’s name was Mormon. And the book was called the book of Mormon. Makes sense doesn’t it. If you want to find out why he’s my hero, go read the book.