The Book of Mormon can provide key insights into helping us to experience happiness in life. We will discuss teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, modern prophets and apostles, and current research into what can lead to happiness. We will focus on the experiences of Nephi and his people when they “lived after the manner of happiness” in the land of Nephi, Alma the Elder and the people from Mormon who had “great…rejoicings”, Captain Moroni and his people when “…there never was a happier time among the people of Nephi, since the days of Nephi, than in the days of Moroni”, and the people who lived after Jesus visited the Nephites when “…there could not be a happier people among all the people who had been created by the hand of God”. We will pull out themes from these experiences and compare them with key research about happiness.
