3 Nephi 20

24 Verily I say unto you, yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have testified of me.
25 And behold, ye are the children of the prophets; and ye are of the house of Israel; and ye are of the covenant which the Father made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 The Father having raised me up unto you first, and sent me to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities; and this because ye are the children of the covenant—

That is some power, to be there and that makes the sin go away.

27 And after that ye were blessed then fulfilleth the Father the covenant which he made with Abraham, saying: In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed—unto the pouring out of the Holy Ghost through me upon the Gentiles, which blessing upon the gentiles shall make them mighty above all, unto the scattering of my people, O house of Israel.

Abraham's kids wrote the book of mormon.

28 And they shall be a scourge unto the people of this land. Nevertheless, when they shall have received the fulness of my gospel, then if they shall harden their hearts against me I will return their iniquities upon their own heads, saith the Father.

Chris is confusing.

This verse says that Columbus is a jerk. But he had the holy ghost to discover America. Columbus ticks me off and I'm not going to start. The scriptures say he is a scourge, or he started the scourge and I'll leave it at that.