The way small details of 3 Nephi were interpreted in the latest Book of Mormon videos helped me see these sacred verses in a more personal way.

From "In Harm's Way" by President Thomas S. Monson

Every member has their own way of celebrating general conference. Whether it's eating warm cinnamon rolls with plenty of gooey frosting for breakfast, participating in conference bingo championships, or drawing closer as a ward family as you watch conference together, everyone has something special they love about this semiannual broadcast.

Do you know there are 1,300 parking stalls in the underground parking of the Conference Center? Or that there are 50,000 miles of electrical wiring?

The following is an excerpt from Brad Wilcox's book, Changed Through His Grace:

INTRODUCTION: My mother was mostly blind during the final years of her life. A passionate reader, a woman who loved to sew and mend and cook and clean, her infirmity made the favored activities of her life nearly impossible. She did learn to crochet by touch, and made over one hundred Afghans for her grand- and great-grandchildren in those final years, but they were years lived in temporal darkness. But through it all she glowed! There was a source of light in her, a shining certainty, that enabled her to see more clearly than any of those whose love and compassion brought them to her side to read to her and to visit with her and to reminisce with her. The real light of the world, rather than being dimmed by her handicap, increased its brightness and radiance as the weeks and months passed by, until it seemed there was no darkness in her at all. More than any person I have ever known, she knew what Jesus meant when he said, “I am the light of the world.”

2 Nephi 25:10-2 Nephi 30

Thurl Bailey played in a championship victory dubbed by Sports Illustrated as the greatest college basketball moment of the 20th century. But now Thurl’s focus is on what it means to be a champion in life.