62. Samuel the Lamanite

A short talk given by eleven-year-old Talmage Cleverly on Sunday, January 15, 1989, in the Primary of the Bountiful Twentieth Ward, Bountiful Utah South Stake. The talk was published in the February 1989 issue of the Family Journal. Talmage at the time was a fifth grader at Bountiful Elementary.

There was a prophet, and his name was Samuel, and he was a Lamanite.

Once when Samuel was teaching some Nephites, they got mad at him, and he got discouraged and left. But then he saw a vision and was told to go back.

So he came back and got on a high wall and told everybody to repent and told them that Jesus was going to come in about five years and told them what the signs were. The Nephites were angry, and they tried to hit Samuel with arrows and rocks and things. And then he got down off the wall and went back to his own land and was never heard of again.

And we should repent and do what the prophet says. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.