We have in our possession one such account. This was among the people here living in the land of ancient America. They had waited for 600 years for the promised Messiah to show Himself and to give them further direction. He did so, and what He taught them was the same message; the need for repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and love. They'd waited so long and the message was simple.
During His visit we have a very moving account of the tender love that He has for children. We read that, "he commanded that their little children should be brought. So
they brought their little children and set them down upon the ground
round about him, and Jesus stood in the midst; and the multitude gave
way till they had all been brought unto him. And
it came to pass that when they had all been brought, and Jesus stood in
the midst, he commanded the multitude that they should kneel down upon the ground...he himself also knelt upon the earth; and behold he prayed unto the Father, and the things which he prayed cannot be written, and the multitude did bear record who heard him. And after this manner do they bear record: The eye
hath never seen, neither hath the ear heard, before, so great and
marvelous things as we saw and heard Jesus speak unto the Father; And no tongue
can speak, neither can there be written by any man, neither can the
hearts of men conceive so great and marvelous things as we both saw and
heard Jesus speak; and no one can conceive of the joy which filled our
souls at the time we heard him pray for us unto the Father. And they arose from the earth, and he said unto them: Blessed are ye because of your faith. And now behold, my joy is full. And when he had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them. And when he had done this he wept again; And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones. And
as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they
saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it
were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them." (3 Nephi 17: 11-24)
A few chapters later we read, "And it came to pass that he did teach and minister unto the children of the multitude of whom hath been spoken, and he did loose their tongues,
and they did speak unto their fathers great and marvelous things, even
greater than he had revealed unto the people; and he loosed their
tongues that they could utter." (3 Nephi 26:14)
Today I witnessed that same miracle as I saw child after child one by one having their tongues loosed and spake unto us, their mothers and fathers marvelous things. They witnessed of Jesus and of how keeping His commandments would assure us happiness here and eternal life there with them. The Holy Ghost did bear record that what those little 4 to 11 year old children spake were true. I was moved.
