When we cannot bear the thought that any soul might perish (Mosiah 28:3) and do not want to see any more sorrow anywhere on earth (Alma 29:2), and when we have the vision of what this world is coming to and desire with all our hearts to rescue every soul possible before it is everlastingly too late, then we feel like shouting from the housetops and opening our mouths and crying repentance to everyone we meet. Actually, we do not need to aspire to do any more than what we have been called to do. As the saying goes, just “bloom where you’re planted!” Your current calling may seem small or insignificant, but your glorious future lies in doing well your present work. Ponder the meaning of this simple verse:
“Father, where shall I work today?”
And my love flowed warm and free.
Then he pointed out a tiny spot,
And said, “Tend that for me.”
I answered quickly, “Oh, no, not that!
Why, no one would ever see,
No matter how well my work was done.
Not that little place for me.”
And the word he spoke, it was not stern;
He answered me tenderly:
“Ah, little one, search that heart of thine;
Art thou working for them or for me?
Nazareth was a little place,
And so was Galilee.” 40
So Alma yearned to have the capacity and the facility to “speak with the trump of God,” to broadcast to all humankind the glorious news of Christ’s redemption. And today, even though the Church places statues of Moroni atop numerous temples throughout the world, are not the words of Alma being disseminated throughout the earth, “cry[ing] repentance unto every people,” as more than a hundred fifty million copies of the Book of Mormon have circulated worldwide? Is not Alma’s testimony being spoken as “with the trump of God, with a voice [from the dead] to shake the earth,” calling on the inhabitants of the earth to prepare to meet their God?