“A Perfect Remembrance”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

Everything you have ever spoken, everything you have ever done, and everything you have ever thought—it is all there, packed away in the depths of your mind for future recall and for judgment. We all have photographic memories; we just don’t have instant recall. At the great day of judgment, however, we will all have instant recall. (Someone once observed that the reason we lose our memory when we get old is so we can die with a clear conscience.) The scriptures teach us that we will have a “perfect knowledge,” a “perfect remembrance,” a “bright recollection” of all things except those of which we have thoroughly repented (2 Nephi 9:14; Alma 11:43). See commentary and quotes at 2 Nephi 9:13–16 and commentary at 3 Nephi 27:23–26.

Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon: Vol. 1

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