[ruthiechan]

This is what stood out to me in the Book of Mormon.

1 Nephi 2: 20, 24
20 And inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands.
(I believe that in our day land refers to geographic locations and the environment, including the people, and that it is somehow related to work or jobs.)

24 And if it so be that they (you) rebel against me . . . a scourge [will come upon thee and] thy seed, to stir them (you) up in the ways of remembrance.
(This is how the scripture popped out to me.

1 Nephi 3: 7, 15, 28-29
7 . . . the Lord given no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

15 But behold I said unto them that: As the Lord liveth and as we live, we will not go down unto our father in the wilderness until we have accomplished the thing which the Lord hath commanded us.
(Do not return to Heavenly Father without doing what he has asked of you.)

28 Wherefore Laman and Lemuel did speak many hard words unto us, their younger brothers, and they did smite us even with a rod.
29 At it came to pass as they smote us with a rod behold, an angel of the Lord came and stood before them . . .
(Sam was there. Often we seem to omit Sam's presence in the attempts to get the plates, of which there were three. Also, the Lord intervened on their behalf because they were doing what God had asked of them.)