Below are the quotes that were used in the video.

As I teach the words of Isaiah, I emphasize their relevance, applicability, and the hope they can give. They can relate to anyone who is feeling forgotten or lonely. This is especially true for families in times of distress, especially spiritual distress. When Nephi's family is in distress, and his brothers have mostly "walked away" from God, he quotes two chapters from Isaiah that relate to him and his family. 
 
​President Henry B. Eyring: “To ask and to answer questions is at the heart of all learning and all teaching.” (“The Lord Will Multiply the Harvest” [an evening with Elder Henry B. Eyring, Feb. 6, 1998], 5–6)
  1. Questions that invite students to search for information.
  2. Questions that lead students to analyze for understanding.
  3. Questions that invite feelings and testimony.
  4. Questions that encourage application.   (Gospel Teaching and Learning, p. 59)

​Your faith in Jesus Christ grows as you become better acquainted with Him and His teachings.  Studying the attributes of Christ deepens your faith and fortifies you on the covenant path.  You continue to ‘come unto’ Christ and become more like Him.  Isaiah is teaching about the attributes of God to build the people’s faith.  Faith in God ‘comforts’ (Isaiah 40:1) and keeps us in ‘the way of the LORD (Isaiah 40:3).  Faith also gives us hope, “for if a man have faith he must needs have hope…” (Moroni 7:42).

The Servant:
  • Is called by God and His spirit is upon him. (See Isa. 42:1, 8-9; 42:6; compare 49:1, 3; 50:4, 10.)
  • Is prepared, protected, and saved to serve at a specific time and place. (See Isa. 42:6; 42:1; compare 49:1, 2, 5; see also Jer. 1:5.)
  • Is loved of God. (See Isa. 42:1.)
  • May be uneducated in worldly things, but is taught by God and is responsible to speak the words of God to the world. (See JST Isa. 50:45, 7; 49:2).
  • May be persecuted by others, including his own people. God promises the servant that they will prevail in His timing. Trials and persecution refine and sanctify the servant. (See Isa. 50:5–6; 49:2, 7; 42:4, 6; compare 49:4–5; 50:7–9, 11.)
  • Will not court popularity, but will preach persuasively by the power of God. (See Isa. 42:2–3; 50:6.)
  • Is called to gather a scattered Israel. He is to bring Israel in from spiritual darkness to light. (See Isa. 49:5; 42:6–7; 49:8; 50:10; 49:6.)
  • Is not just called to a small geographical location, but their mission extends to the entire world. (See Isa. 42:1, 4; 49:6; 50:10–11.)
  • Will establish a covenant with the chosen people and will be a light to the Gentiles. (See Isa. 42:6; 49:8.)
  • Invites all, including leaders of nations, to repent. (See Isa. 49:7.)
  • Prepares the way for those in the spirit prison to hear the true gospel and be freed. (See Isa. 49:9; 42:7.)
  • Will come before the Millennium and “is instrumental in the final redemption of Zion. His mission is significant, for it prepares the way for the renewal of Jerusalem and the return of Zion. (See Isa. 49:8; 9–13; 1 Ne. 21:8; 1 Ne. 22:10–12) (Ludlow, Isaiah: Prophet, Seer, and Poet, 359)

Matthew identifies Isaiah 42:1-4 as referring to Christ

A reed is a marsh plant with tall, hollow stems. A bruised reed is one that is cracked, and therefore is weak. Symbolically, a bruised reed may be a mortal with physical weaknesses or bodily afflictions. A smoking flax is a wick made from flax for an oil lamp, whose flame wavers, about to go out. This may signify someone who is spiritually weak, whose light flickers and does not burn brightly. Jesus healed and cared for the physically infirm (bruised reed), and he taught and guided the spiritually weak (smoking flax).
  1. Teaches that which is of “great worth  . . .  to the body and the soul.” (1 Nephi 19:7).
  2. Prophecies of the crucifixion, and of the scattering of the Jews. (1 Nephi 19:10-14).
  3. Many things that the Jews will suffer until there comes a time where they will “no more turn aside their hearts against the Holy One of Israel, then will he remember the covenants which he made to their fathers.”  (1 Nephi 19:15.)
  4. Nephi relates this to his people so “that perhaps I might persuade them that they would remember the Lord their Redeemer,” (1 Nephi 19:18)
  5. To more fully persuade them to believe in the Lord, he read Isaiah and to liken the words of Isaiah to themselves. (1 Nephi 19:20-24.)
  6. For Nephi, one of the reasons why he quotes Isaiah is the promise “that ye may have hope … for after this manner has the prophet written.” (1 Nephi 19:24)

“That ye may have hope”:
  1. We are strengthened through covenants (48:1).
  2. God knows the future and knows us (48:2-3).
  3. God will not cut us off (48:9).
  4. Chooses and refines us in the ‘furnace of affliction’ (24:10).
  5. Hearkening to God brings a river of peace (48:18).
  6. Hearkening to God brings waves of righteousness (48:18).
  7. Today we can feel Babylon and sing the songs of redeeming joy (48:20).
  8. God is able to do miracles in our lives (48:21)
  9. God has “done all of this [for us], and greater also (48:22)

In the recently released results of a study conducted last October by researchers at Making Caring Common, 36 percent of respondents to a national survey of approximately 950 Americans reported feeling lonely “frequently” or “almost all the time or all the time” in the prior four weeks, compared with 25 percent who recalled experiencing serious issues in the two months prior to the pandemic. Perhaps most striking is that 61 percent of those aged 18 to 25 reported high levels. (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/young-adults-teens-loneliness-mental-health-coronavirus-covid-pandemic/#:~:text=In%20the%20recently%20released%20results,compared%20with%2025%20percent%20who)

Hope comes through “my servant” (Isaiah 49:3)
  • They are foreordained (49:1)
  • Prepared for a purpose (49:2)
  • Invite others to spiritually return to God (49:5)
    • An emphasis on a personal relationship to God
  • Gather Israel (49:5)
    • The New International Version clarifies the meaning of this verse: "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth." In other words, for the Lord the gathering of Israel is a small matter.  Nothing is too hard for the Lord or for any servant he may send who has faith in him.
  • Light to guide us in our day (49:6)
    • Matthew 5:14-16 – we too are asked to be a light to the world.
  • At the appointed time, God will help and preserve and give (my servant) a covenant for the people (49:8)
    • The servant was also to ‘establish the earth’ or restore the ability of peoples of the whole earth to make a covenant with God
  • Enable those in darkness to see the light (49:9)
    • Similar wording is found in Isaiah 42:7. The Prophet Joseph Smith explained that those that sit in darkness who are in prison refer to the spirits of the dead who are bound in spirit prison or hell (see History of the Church. 4:596-597).
  • God will provide for all their needs (49:9-11)
  • Gathering (49:12)
  • Comfort (49:13)

President Wilford Woodruff:  “The revelations that are in the Bible, the predictions of the patriarchs and prophets who saw by vision and revelation the last dispensation and fulness of times plainly tell us what is to come to pass. The 49th chapter of Isaiah is having its fulfillment.”   (Wilford Woodruff, Collected Discourses, 5:187; Joseph F. Smith, Signs of the Times, pg. 112)

Teaching Thoughts:
  1. Relevance, applicability and hope found in teachings of Isaiah.
  2. Focus on the themes in Isaiah.  For example, keep a list of what you find that will help you in times of spiritual peril.
  3. God has provided us servants to direct us toward Christ and give us hope.
  4. There is peace and rest in Christ.
  5. Isaiah’s words give hope to families in distress, especially in spiritual distress.