Below are the quotes that were used in the video.

 Sections 30-36 focus on the Gathering of Israel. These sections contain calls, counsel, cautions, and promises for the gatherers. President Russell M. Nelson has taught that "the gathering of Israel is the most important thing taking place on earth today. Nothing else compares in magnitude, nothing else compares in importance, nothing else compares in majesty. And if you choose to, if you want to, you can be a big part of it. You can be a big part of something big, something grand, something majestic!" (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2018/08-se/hope-of-israel?lang=eng).

Steven R. Covey: "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives."

President Russell M. Nelson: "The gathering of Israel is the most important thing taking place on earth today. Nothing else compares in magnitude, nothing else compares in importance, nothing else compares in majesty. And if you choose to, if you want to, you can be a big part of it. You can be a big part of something big, something grand, something majestic!"(https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2018/08-se/hope-of-israel?lang=eng)

Peter Whitmer Jr: "The word of the Lord came unto me by the Prophet Joseph Smith . . saying Peter thou shalt go with Brother Oliver to the Lamanites."

Thomas B. Marsh: I believed the Spirit of God dictated me to make a journey west. I started in company with one Benjamin Hall, who was also led by the Spirit. I went to Lima, Livingston County, New York, where I staid [stayed] some three months, and then left for home. I called on my return at Lyonstown, on a family, whose names I do not recollect. On leaving there next morning the lady enquired if I had heard of the Golden Book found by a youth named Joseph Smith. I informed her I never heard anything about it, and became very anxious to know concerning the matter. On enquiring, she told me I could learn more about it from Martin Harris, in Palmyra. I returned back westward and found Martin Harris at the printing office, in Palmyra, where the first sixteen pages of the Book of Mormon had just been struck off, the proof sheet of which I obtained from the printer and took with me. As soon as Martin Harris found out my intentions he took me to the house of Joseph Smith, Sen., where Joseph Smith, Jun., resided, who could give me any information I might wish. Here I found Oliver Cowdery, who gave me all the information concerning the book I desired. After arriving home and finding my family all well, I showed my wife the sixteen pages of the Book of Mormon which I had obtained, with which she was well pleased, believing it to be the work of God. From this time for about one year I corresponded with Oliver Cowdery and Joseph Smith, Jun., and prepared myself to move west. During the month I was baptized by David Whitmer, in Cayuga Lake, and in a few days I was ordained an elder by Oliver Cowdery with six elders, at Father Whitmer's house. Joseph received a revelation appointing me a physician to the Church." (History of Thomas Baldwin Marsh, Millennial Star 26, 1864).

Ezra Thayre: He chastised them, demanding that they “not take [his] horses again to hear those blasphemous wretches preach.” They maintained “that there was something in it, and that [Thayer] had better go and hear him.” (“Testimony of Brother E. Thayre Concerning the Latter Day Work,” True Latter Day Saints’ Herald, vol. 3, no. 4 (Oct. 1862), 79–80.)

As Hyrum Smith began to preach, Thayer’s resistance melted away. He later wrote about his experience that day: “Every word touched me to the inmost soul. I thought every word was pointed to me. . . .The tears rolled down my cheeks, I was very proud and stubborn. There were many there who knew me. . . . I sat until I recovered myself before I dare look up. (“Testimony of Brother E. Thayre,” 80.)

​“They filled my house all day, and men made my wife believe that I was crazy and would lose my friends and all my property.” When Thayer endeavored to reason with a Methodist couple regarding his new faith, they curtly dismissed his argument,
…leaving Thayer’s wife, Elizabeth, to despair. “My wife began to cry,” he wrote, “and said that I was crazy, and it would ruin me, and she would leave me.” (“Testimony of Brother E. Thayre,” 80–81.)

“A man came and brought me a roll of paper and presented it to me, and also a trumpet and told me to blow it. I told him that I never blowed any in my life. He said you can blow it, try it. I put it in my mouth and blowed on it, and it made the most beautiful sound that I ever heard” (“Testimony of Brother E. Thayre, 82)
This passage reminded Thayer of his dream. He concluded, “The roll of paper was the revelation on me and Northrop Sweet. Oliver [Cowdery] was the man that brought the roll and trumpet.” (“Testimony of Brother E. Thayre,” 82.)

“When God shows a man such a thing by the power of the Holy Ghost he knows it is true. He cannot doubt it.” (“Testimony of Brother E. Thayre,” 80.)

Orson Pratt: From the age of ten to nineteen I saw much of the world, and was tossed about without any permanent abiding place; but through the grace of God, I was kept from many of the evils to which young people are exposed; the early impressions of morality and religion, instilled into my mind by my parents, …always remained with me; and I often felt a great anxiety to be prepared for a future state; but never commenced, in real earnest, to seek after the Lord, until the autumn of 1829. I then began to pray very fervently, repenting of every sin. In the silent shades of night, while others were slumbering upon their pillows, I often retired to some secret place in the lonely fields or solitary wilderness, and bowed before the Lord, and prayed for hours with a broken heart and contrite spirit; this was my comfort and delight. The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

I continued to pray in this fervent manner until September, 1830, at which time two Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came into the neighborhood, one of which was my brother Parley. They held several meetings which I attended. “Being convinced of the divine authenticity of the doctrine they taught, I was baptized September 19, 1830. This was my birthday, being nineteen years old. I was the only person in the [area] who received and obeyed the message” (in The Orson Pratt Journals, comp. Elden J. Watson [1975], 8–9).

Sidney Rigdon and 'Counting the Cost' (Saints p. 100-101)

​In the fall, thirty-eight-year-old Sidney Rigdon listened politely as Parley Pratt and his three companions testified of a new work of scripture, the Book of Mormon. But Sidney was not interested. For years, he had exhorted people in and around the village of Kirtland, Ohio, to read the Bible and return to the principles of the New Testament church. The Bible had always guided his life, he told the missionaries, and it was enough.26

“You brought the truth to me,” Parley reminded Sidney. “I now ask you as a friend to read this for my sake.”27

“You must not argue with me on the subject,” Sidney insisted. “But I will read your book and see what claim it has upon my faith.”28

Parley asked Sidney if they could preach to his congregation. Although he was skeptical of their message, Sidney gave them permission.
After the missionaries left, Sidney read parts of the book and found he could not dismiss it.29 By the time Parley and Oliver preached to his congregation, he had no desire to warn anyone against the book. When he rose to speak at the end of the meeting, he quoted the Bible.

“Prove all things,” he said, “and hold fast that which is good.”30

But Sidney remained uncertain about what to do. Accepting the Book of Mormon would mean losing his employment as a pastor. He had a good congregation, and they provided him, his wife, Phebe, and their six children with a comfortable life. Some people in the congregation were even building a home for them.31 Could he really ask his family to walk away from the comfort they enjoyed?

Sidney prayed until a sense of peace rested over him. He knew the Book of Mormon was true. “Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto me,” he exclaimed, “but my Father which is in heaven.”32

Sidney shared his feelings with Phebe. “My dear,” he said, “you have once followed me into poverty. Are you again willing to do the same?”
“I have counted the cost,” she replied. “It is my desire to do the will of God, come life or come death.”33

Parley P. Pratt: "The people thronged us night and day, insomuch that we had no time for rest and retirement.  Meetings were convened in different neighborhoods, and multitudes came together soliciting our attendance; while thousands flocked about us daily; some to be taught, some for curiosity, some to obey the gospel, and some to dispute it." (The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, Chapter 7).

Parley P. Pratt: “May it please the court, I have one proposal to make for a final settlement of the things that seem to trouble you. It is this: if thw witnesses who have given testimony in the case will repent of their false swearing, and the magistrate of his unjust and wicked judgement and of his persecution, blackguardism and abuse, and all kneel down together, we will pray for you, that God might forgive you in these matters.”

In the morning the officer appeared and took me to breakfast; this over, we sat in waiting in the inn for all things to be ready to conduct me to prison. In the meantime my fellow travellers came past on their journey, and called to see me. I told them in an undertone to pursue their journey and leave me to manage my own affairs, promising to overtake them soon. They did so.

After sitting awhile by the fire in charge of the officer, I requested to step out. I walked out into the public square accompanied by him. Said I, ‘Mr. Peabody, are you good at a race?’ ‘No,’ said he, ‘but my big bull dog is, and he has been trained to assist me in my office these several years; he will take any man down at my bidding.’

‘Well, Mr. Peabody, you compelled me to go a mile, I have gone with you two miles. You have given me an opportunity to preach, sing, and have also entertained me with lodging and breakfast. I must now go on my journey; if you are good at a race you can accompany me. I thank you for all your kindness—good day, sir.’

I then started on my journey, while he stood amazed and not able to step one foot before the other. Seeing this, I halted, turned to him and again invited him to a race. He still stood amazed. I then renewed my exertions, and soon increased my speed to something like that of a deer. He did not awake from his astonishment sufficiently to start in pursuit till I had gained, perhaps, two hundred yards. I had already leaped a fence, and was making my way through a field to the forest on the right of the road.
He now came hallooing after me, and shouting to his dog to seize me. The dog, being one of the largest I ever saw, came close on my footsteps with all his fury; the officer behind still in pursuit, clapping his hands and hallooing, ‘stu-boy, stu-boy—take him—watch—lay hold of him, I say—down with him,’ and pointing his finger in the direction I was running.

The dog was fast overtaking me, and in the act of leaping upon me, when, quick as lightning, the thought struck me, to assist the officer, in sending the dog with all fury to the forest a little distance before me. I pointed my finger in that direction, clapping my hands, and shouting in imitation of the officer. The dog hastened past me with redoubled speed towards the forest; being urged by the officer and myself, and both of us running in the same direction.

Gaining the forest, I soon lost sight of the officer and dog, and have not seen them since. I took a back course, crossing the road, took round into the wilderness, on the left, and made the road again in time to cross a bridge over Vermilion River, where I was hailed by half a dozen men, who had been anxiously waiting our arrival to that part of the country, and who urged me very earnestly to stop and preach. I told them that I could not do it, for an officer was on my track. I passed on six miles further, through mud and rain, and overtook the brethren, and preached the same evening to a crowded audience, among whom we were well entertained.

The Book of Mormon, which I dropped at the house of Simeon Carter, when taken by the officer, was by these circumstances left with him. He read it with attention. It wrought deeply upon his mind, and he went fifty miles to the church we had left in Kirtland, and was there baptized and ordained an elder. He then returned to his home and commenced to preach and baptize. A church of about sixty members was soon organized in the place where I had played such a trick of deception on the dog. (https://thirdhour.org/blog/faith/lds-history/parley-p-pratt-prison/#:~:text=It%20is%20this%3A%20if%20thw,forgive%20you%20in%20these%20matters.%E2%80%9D)

Calls, Counsel, Cautions and Promises for the Gatherers (Open your mouth and preach the gospel)

• 30:9    “Commence from this time forth to proclaim my gospel, as with the voice of a trump.” 
• 31:3    “Your tongue shall be loosed, and you shall declare glad tidings of great joy unto this generation.”
• 32:1  “Declare my gospel and learn of me, and be meek and lowly of heart.”
• 33:2     “Ye are called to lift up your voices as with the sound of a trump, to declare my gospel”
• 33:8     “Open your mouths and they shall be filled”
• 33:9     “Open your mouths and spare not, and you shall be laden with sheaves upon your backs”
• 33:10  “Open your mouths and they shall be filled”
• 34:5   “And more blessed are you because you are called of me to preach my gospel”
• 34:6  “Lift up your voice as with the sound of a trump, both long and loud”

​Calls, Counsel, Cautions and Promises for the Gatherers (Prayer)

• 30:6    “Ever lifting up your heart unto me in prayer and faith.” 
• 31:12    “Pray always, lest you enter into temptation and lose your reward.”
• 32:4  “They shall pray always that I may unfold the same to their understanding.”
• 33:17     “be faithful, praying always, having your lamps trimmed and burning, and  oil with you, that you may be ready at the coming of the Bridegroom”

​Calls, Counsel, Cautions and Promises for the Gatherers (Be obedient, be faithful, give heed to scriptures, keep covenants.)

• 30:8    “Give heed unto these things and be diligent in keeping my commandments.” 
• 31:13    “Be faithful unto the bend.”
• 32:4  “Give heed to that which is written.”
• 33:14     “And ye shall remember the church articles and covenants to keep them.” •

Calls, Counsel, Cautions and Promises for the Gatherers (To be a Great Companion)

• 30:6  “Be you afflicted in all his afflictions, ever lifting up your heart unto me in prayer and faith, for his and your deliverance.” 
• 30:11  “Your whole labor shall be in Zion, with all your soul.”
• 31:8   “Strengthen them and prepare them.”
• 31:9   “…in meekness, and be steadfast”

Calls, Counsel, Cautions and Promises for the Gatherers

"The five mistakes David Whitmer had made are not difficult to translate into today's environment, almost without modification. They were (1) you have feared man (wanted to be socially acceptable); (2) you have not relied on the Lord for strength as you should have (strength received from peers is not nearly as effective as support from God); (3) your mind has been focused on the things of this world rather than on the eternal verities including your present Church calling; (4) you have not listened to the Spirit and those leaders whom the Lord has chosen to guide you; and (5) you have been persuaded by those who seem to know much but have no authority to receive revelations from the Lord for you." (Randy L. Bott, The Doctrine and Covenants, a Book of Answers: The 25th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, 45).

Calls, Counsel, Cautions and Promises for the Gatherers

• 30:11  “I am with you.”
• 31:13  “I am with you.”
• 32:3  “I myself will go with them and be in their midst;”
• 33:9  “I am with you.”
• 34:11  “I am with you until I come.”
• 35:14  “And their arm shall be my arm, and I will be their shield and their buckler; and I will gird up their loins, and they shall fight manfully for me;”

Elder Neil A. Maxwell: “Fortunately, God is preoccupied with His children. We, and what we may become, are His work and glory. (Moses 1:39.)  All that He does is for our benefit. (2 Ne. 26:24.)  As George MacDonald said of God, ‘He lays no plans irrespective of His children.’” (Meek and Lowly, Deseret Book Co., p. 12.)
“We are His ‘work’ and His ‘glory,’ and He is never distracted!” (O Divine Redeemer, Ensign [CR], Nov. 1981.) ·
“None of us ever fully utilizes the people–opportunities allocated to us within our circles of friendship. You and I may call these intersectings ‘coincidence.’ This word is understandable for mortals to use, but coincidence is not an appropriate word to describe the workings of an omniscient God. He does not do things by ‘coincidence’ but…by ‘divine design.’” (“Brim with Joy” [BYU Dev. Address], 23 Jan. 1996; see https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-maxwell).

Teaching Thoughts:

​Your group is in charge of studying each section (30-34).  Assign one person from your group to each section to study it and take notes. 
        30:1-11      31:1-13      32:1-5     33:1-2, 8-18     34:1-12

• Mark in blue what God wants missionaries to teach/declare.
• Mark in green the 3 most important things God wants His missionaries to do.
• Mark in orange all the blessings we get from missionary work.
• Mark in purple the one piece of advice you think is best (be prepared to share why you feel that is the best advice).
• Mark in any other color your favorite verse in your section (be prepared to explain why). ​