Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Meetings for the Atherton Ward are held at 6500 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. Sacrament service is held every Sunday at 9 a.m., followed in the second hour by Sunday School on the first and third Sundays, and Relief Society and Elders Quorum on the second and fourth Sundays. Primary classes for children are held every Sunday during the second hour. Members who are unable to attend Sacrament services in person can request a link from Bishop Mike Gravley at 562-212-8641. The reading source for this year is The Book of Mormon, personal reading should be those chapters in 2 Nephi not covered in this study. The reading assignment for the week of Feb. 12-18 covers 2 Nephi 3-5.

The “Come Follow Me” lesson manual says “Reading 1 Nephi, you might get the impression that Nephi was somehow larger than life...both physically and spiritually he seemed unshaken by the trials he faced. While Nephi’s faith was remarkable, his words in 2 Nephi 4 reveal that even faithful people sometimes feel ‘wretched’ and ‘easily beset’ by temptations. Here we see someone who is trying, who wants to be joyful, but whose “heart groaneth because of [his] sins.”