PROVO, Utah — Nephi's people were happy because they kept the commandments and lived according to scripture — scripture important enough to go back to Laban to obtain.Modern-day Mormons can do the same and be happy as well, said Nancy Murphy at a recent 2009 BYU Campus Education Week class.\"This is for anybody who wants to be happy,\" Murphy, who served with her baseball star husband Dale in the Boston Massachusetts Mission. \"We're promised we will be happy if we keep the commandments.\"Murphy said that means doing the basics really, really well: having family home evening, studying the scriptures and praying day and night.Attending the temples which more and more are accessible can provide power, peace and strength.Preparing for calamities can bring peace of mind.Strong testimonies bring protection.Establishing habits of righteousness makes it easier to keep on the path, she said. And making decisions in advance makes it easier to avoid making bad decisions.\"Decisions are easier made in the on deck circle,\" she said, referring to her baseball husband's world and the area where a player waits for his turn at bat.Murphy said while keeping the commandments is critical she isn't into laying on guilt. She said she's anti-guilt because guilt discourages people from moving forward.\"We don't do perfect, at least not yet,\" she said.She did, however, urge people to start practicing being happy now so they will be happy in the hereafter.Quoting Mormon 9:14, she said, \"He that is happy will be happy still.\"She pointed out that there is no cost to living the principles of the gospel but the blessings are rich.
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