I often say that I am unprepared for motherhood. I can cook tolerable food, but I have severely limited ideas about what to make. I don't know how to maintain a house, budget, fix stuff, get stains out of clothes, prepare a food storage, do hair. . .the list goes on. Instead of learning all this, I was taking classes about Middle Age Literature (now THERE'S something to help you down the road!) and playing in a bluegrass band.
Nephi: He had no idea how he was going to get the plates. He had no idea how to get to the promised land. He didn't know how to build a ship, much less sail a ship. In 2 Nephi 5:15 he teaches his people to build buildings, work in wood and iron and etc and then in verse 16, he builds a temple.
These are not easy things. Not only that, but Nephi learned to do these things while his brothers were continually threatening his life.
I can be like Nephi. I can learn. I can do hard things.
