Molten Gold

He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way. They often come after the trial has been the greatest, as evidence of the compassion and love of an all-knowing Father. They point the way to greater happiness, more understanding, and strengthen your determination to accept and be obedient to ... I testify that when the Lord closes one important door in your life He shows His continuing love and compassion by opening many other compensating doors through your exercise of faith.  He will place in your path packets of spiritual sunlight to brighten your way.
Elder Richard Scott

I believe these path packets are even waypoints along the way.  Sister Vilate C. Raile penned these words, regarding the pioneers, which I believe is expressing these packets, its power even for us,  

They cut desire into short lengths,
And fed it to the hungry fires of tribulation.

Long after when the fires had died,
Molten gold gleamed in the ashes.

They gathered it in bruised palms
And handed it to their children, And
their children's children forever.

Chronicles

When you read I & II Chronicles the scriptural literary format is very similar to the Book of Mormon.  Eventhough no autobiographical writer is speaking like "I, Nephi".  The scholars who produced the Chronicle books produce similiarities- like David inquiring of the Lord (Nephi), and David leading out against the Phillistines in war (Captain Moroni, Moroni, Helaman). Or even the idea of casting of lots is identified.

I Chronicles 14: 8-17; 24:31.

Wikpedia suggests the following themes  through these books:

The message which the authors wished to give to his audience was this:

1. God is active in history, and especially the history of Israel. The faithfulness or sins of individual kings are immediately rewarded or punished by God. (This is in contrast to the theology of the Books of Kings, where the faithlessness of kings was punished on later generations through the Babylonian exile).^[11]
2. God calls Israel to a special relationship. The call begins with the genealogies (chapters 1–9 of 1 Chronicles), gradually narrowing the focus from all mankind to a single family, the Israelites, the descendants of Jacob. "True" Israel is those who continue to worship Yahweh at the Temple in Jerusalem, with the result that the history of the historical kingdom of Israel is almost completely ignored.^[12]
3. God chose David and his dynasty as the agents of his will. According to the author of Chronicles, the three great events of David's reign were his bringing the ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, his founding of an eternal royal dynasty, and his preparations for the construction of the Temple.^[12]
4. God chose the Temple in Jerusalem as the place where he should be worshiped. More time and space are spent on the construction of the Temple and its rituals of worship than on any other subject. By stressing the central role of the Temple in pre-exilic Judah, the author also stresses the importance of the newly-rebuilt Persian-era Second Temple to his own readers.
5. God remains active in Israel. The past is used to legitimise the author's present: this is seen most clearly in the detailed attention he gives to the Temple built by Solomon, but also in the genealogy and lineages, which connect his own generation to the distant past and thus make the claim that the present is a continuation of that past.^[13]

Three Ways

The Nephites reacted to the signs being manifested before them in three ways: the people were some ...”most believing”, others...both relying upon their “own wisdom and strength”, and saying things they “may have guessed right”.
Helaman 16:15-16

Who would we be? How would we “reason and contend”, or “imagine up in our hearts”- seeing these signs. v22 & v18