Post navigation Were the spared Nephites the cream of the crop? Two weeks ago, I taught Gospel Doctrine. I was given a specific lesson to teach, so that's the one I prepared. When I stood at the front of the class to teach, I was told by the class I was teaching the wrong lesson, and I was teaching one three lessons later. (It turns out that  they were wrong and the lesson I taught will actually be taught next week. Oh well.) It's an uneasy feeling having to come up with a lesson on the spot with absolutely no time to prepare, especially when you don't have a manual and have only printed off the one lesson. The lesson the class said I was supposed to be teaching apparently covers 3 Nephi 8 -- 12. I had read 3 Nephi 11 with investigators many times, so even though it has been 20 years, I figured that teaching 3 Nephi 11 was my best shot. Anyhow, at some point in the lesson, someone (it may have even been me) and made mention that the people alive when Jesus visited the Nephites were not necessarily righteous. There was a discussion about this, and it became quite clear that this was a view held by a minority of the class. In fact, one class member even referred to the survivors as the cream of the crop. I knew this was wrong, and that there were scriptures in the 9th and 10th chapters