Alma 36:18. Remembering our sins is not a bad things. It will help us to avoid making the same mistakes again.

Elder Uchtdorf teaches us about remembering our sins.

“Satan will try to make us believe that our sins are not forgiven because we can remember them. Satan is a liar he tries to blur our vision and lead us away from the path of repentance and forgiveness. God did not promise that we would not remember our sins. Remembering will help us avoid making the same mistakes again. But if we stay true and faithful, the memory of our sins will be softened over time. This will be part of the needed healing and sanctification process. Alma testified that after he cried out to Jesus for mercy, he could still remember his sins, but the memory of his sins no longer distressed and tortured him, because he knew he had been forgiven (see Alma 36:17-19). It is our responsibility to avoid anything that would bring back old sinful memories. When we continue to have a ‘broken heart and a contrite spirit’ (3 Nephi 12:19), we may trust that God will ‘remember our sins no more’” (The Merciful Obtain Mercy”. By President Dieter F. Uchtdorf. GC April 2012)

Alma 36:16-17. Alma was racked with torment and harrowed up by the memory of his sins.

President Packer April 2001 Gen Conference. 

“Racked means ‘tortured.’ Anciently a rack was a framework on which the victim was laid with each ankle and wrist tied to a spindle which could then be turned to cause unbearable pain.

A harrow is a frame with spikes through it. When pulled across the ground, it rips and tears into the soil. The scriptures frequently speak of souls and minds being ‘harrowed up’ with guilt.

Torment means ‘to twist,’ a means of torture so painful that even the innocent would confess” (President Packer “The Touch of the Master’s Hand,” 22)

Moroni 7:33 Faith in Jesus Christ

Elder Holland taught “The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue, it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.” ("Lord I Believe", Elder Holland 2016 GC)

 

Alma 7:11-13 Christ suffered for us individually and understands every situation possible.

Sister Chieko Okazaki - We talk in great generalities about the sins of all humankind, about the suffering of the entire human family. But we don’t experience pain in generalities. We experience it individually. That means he knows what it felt like when your mother died of cancer- how it was for your mother, how it still is for you. He knows what it felt like to lose the student body election. He knows that moment when the brakes locked and the car started to skid. He experienced the slave ship sailing from Ghana toward Virginia. He experienced the gas chambers at Dachau. He experienced napalm in Vietnam. He knows about drug addiction and alcoholism. Let me go further. There is nothing you have experienced…that he does not know and recognize….He understands about rape… and abortion…He knows all that. He’s been there. He’s been lower than all that.

He’s not waiting for us to be perfect. Perfect people don’t need a Savior. He came to save his people in their imperfections. He is the Lord of the living, and the living make mistakes. He’s not embarrassed by us, angry at us , or shocked. He wants us in our brokenness, in our unhappiness, in our guilt and our grief…

Our spiritual requirement for light is just as desperate and as deep as our physical need for light. Jesus is the light of the world. We know that this world is a dark place sometimes, but we need not walk in darkness. The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the people who walk in darkness can have a bright companion. We need him, and He is ready to come to us, if we’ll open the door and let him. (Lighten UP p174-176)

Mosiah 13:11 We need to get the gospel from our heads to our hearts

Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson, YW General President.              Mosiah 13:11

 “We need to get the gospel from our heads into our hearts! It is possible for us to merely go through the motions of living the gospel because it is expected or because it is the culture in which we have grown up or because it is a habit. …

“We all need to seek to have our hearts and very natures changed so that we no longer have a desire to follow the ways of the world but to please God” (Bonnie L. Oscarson, “Do I Believe?” Ensign, May 2016, 88).

Mosiah 11:26-29. Prophets sometimes throw cold water on a party

Elder D. Todd Christofferson.      Mosiah 11:26-29

“The message of repentance is often not welcomed. …

“… When prophets come crying repentance, it ‘throws cold water on the party.’ But in reality the prophetic call should be received with joy. Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands of a better life. And, of course, only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ and salvation” (D. Todd Christofferson, “The Divine Gift of Repentance,” Ensign, Nov. 2011, 38).

Mosiah 3:19 Satan will tell you that you cannot change

Mosiah 3:19

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:

Satan would say, “You can’t change. You won’t change. It’s too long and too hard to change. Give up. Give in. Don’t repent. You are just the way you are.” That, my friends, is a lie born of desperation. Don’t fall for it. (Jeffrey R. Holland, “How to Change,” Liahona, Feb. 2017, 60)