In this great narrative about the prophet Nephi and the dramatic events surrounding his ministry, there appears a little insert, an almost hidden comment, about his brother: “And behold, Lehi, his brother, was not a whit behind him as to things pertaining to righteousness.”
Lehi is relegated to the wings, as it were, while his brother, Nephi, is the main actor on the stage of this part of history. So it was with Sam, brother of the earlier Nephi, and so it was centuries later with Hyrum Smith, while his brother Joseph took center stage. President Howard W. Hunter counseled: “If you feel that much of what you do … does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren’t very famous either. Serve and grow, faithfully and quietly.”19
The Savior taught that “thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly” (Matthew 6:6) and “inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward” (D&C 58:28).