1. Suffers long, bears all things. He or she is endowed with a portion of the love of God and thus, to some degree, with the patience and perspective of God toward people and circumstances. That person’s vision of here and now (the present) is greatly affected by his glimpse of there and then (the future). It was by means of this pure love of Christ, which followed their spiritual rebirth (see Mosiah 28:3), that Alma and the sons of Mosiah were able to bear the burdens placed upon them, even persecution and rejection.