Alma 32 - If you have faith in the Lord he can turn the most dier of situations into the cause for your salvation.

I don't think I'll ever understand why, but when I read a scripture or hear a quote I almost always get something completely different out of it than everybody else. I like to think of it as listening to the Holy Ghost on a whole nother level or something, as apposed to everybody else's theory that I'm just weird. Which I'm not disagreeing with. Everybody's weird, I'm just the only one who has the guts to admit it.
So anyways, if I dare stay on track, what I was talking about was how I always get something different out of scriptures than everybody else. My favourite chapter in the Book of Mormon is Alma 32. This chapter is basically all about faith, but that's not why I love it. I mean yeah, the whole knowing isn't believing and faith is like unto a seed stuff is awesome too, but what makes it my favourite chapter is the story behind the metaphor.
The chapter basically starts out with Alma (who for simplicity's sake I'll just say is a missionary) going into a city and trying to preach the gospel, as missionaries often do. After a while he finds that nobody will listen to him. House after house he is turned away by the pride of whoever happens to open the door. After a long while of this (I'm not sure how long, could be all day could be all month, I don't think it says) he comes to the poorer part of town, having so far no success at all. He finds that the less wealthy people have been humbled by their poverty and are more open to the gospel.
This city did have a church, but the poor people weren't allowed in it because they were not dressed well enough. A principle taught by Alma through response to this is that anybody, anywhere can worship God as long as they are doing their best.

Everybody else who reads this chapter kind of skims over this part and rarely pays any attention to it, going on to the majority of the chapter which is based on faith.
The part that I found significant though was that at first glance, the poor people were kind of being screwed over. I mean, they were poor ad not well dressed. They were the base of the hierarchy and they weren't even allowed in the synagogues (churches, of sorts), which - may I add - they did build in the first place. Although I should have known better than to think such mundane trials would prevent any decent, humble people from happiness. As Alma said '... their afflictions had truly humbled them, and that they were in preperation to hear the word.' (Alma 32: 6).
Because these people weren't so obsessed with earthly treasures they more easily opened their hearts to the treasures of the spirit (that is to say the gospel). This reminds me of another scripture (yeah I know, I'm a little scripture obsessed for my age)
3 Nephi 13: 19-21
'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth currupt, and theives break through and steal;
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where theives do not break through and steal.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.'

Although at first glance the rich people may have seemed to have it good, their joy was only temporary.
The real gifts given to us by God are the trials. It is in these that we find ourselves, find our path and find our happiness. Without pain you cannot know joy and in the end it really comes down to having faith that whatever happens happens because it was meant to happen and it will make the world a better place. God would never give anybody a trial that he didn't think they could conquer and learn from.

So yeah, long story short:
What everybody else got out of Alma 32 - Faith is a seed, if planted and cared for it will grow.
What I got from it - If you have faith in the Lord he can turn the most dier of situations into the cause for your salvation.

Hey cool! That totally rhymes. Now you have to remember it!

Scriptures - this is what we call the Bible, The book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price and The Doctrine and Covenants. Believe me when I say it's just better this way.