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The Process of Repentance

This is one of the original sets of seven that I found several years ago. It is one of the fundamental sets that is very accurate to the seven structure. I originally saw it in Alma 36 . Then I saw it in a Sunday School lesson that I taught, in the additional teachings section ; this was taken from a conference talk by Richard G Scott called Finding Forgiveness , which takes from the book Miracle of Forgiveness by Spenser W Kimball . The full process of repentance 1 Recognition of sin 2 Sorrow for sin 3 Abandonment of sin 4 Confession of sin 5 Restitution for sin 6 Obedience to all the commandments 7 Forgiveness for sin Recognition of sin - We will not choose to change if we do not know that we have sinned. Alma was brought to recognize his sin by an angel . We need to actively repent, and in order to do this, we need to study the words of the prophets and seek the inspiration of the spirit to learn how we need to improve. We can seek it out or be brought to recognize our sin but