"Sometimes God calms the storm...Sometimes he lets the storm rage and calms his child." I was reading 1 Nephi 1 today and found interesting the process that Lehi goes through in his discovery of the events that were about to unfold. He finds out that Jerusalem is going to be destroyed, so he prays about it on behalf of his people. It says that he sees and hears much in a vision of some sort, "...and because of the things which he saw and heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly." He goes home and is overwhelmed by what he has learned. Another vision is shown to him in which he sees more and is comforted because he understands the plan a little better and is given the reassurance that those who come unto the Lord "shall not perish." He is overjoyed because he knows that there is hope. So the first thing he does is he goes into town and tells everyone the good news. That didn't go over very well. They tried to kill him. While the Lord ha...