This week’s Come Follow Me lesson focuses on 1 Nephi 1–7 in the Book of Mormon, which tells the story of Lehi’s call as a prophet in Jerusalem, the people’s rejection of his message, his flight with his family into the wilderness, establishing camp in a river-valley along the coast of the Red Sea, and his sons two return trips back to Jerusalem—first to get the plates of brass from Laban, and then to recruit Ishmael and his family to join them.To go along with your reading this week, I thought it would be fun to highlight seven archaeological discoveries related to these chapters in the Book of Mormon. I do not present them as evidence for the Book of Mormon,, but rather as a few simple and straightforward examples of how archaeological discoveries can enrich our study of ancient scripture, including the Book of Mormon. While these do not yieldinsights into the early setting of the Book of Mormon, they do help us see how some details in the Book of Mormon connect to th…