My Book of Mormon Goal

Back on Monday, November 7, 2011, I began my goal of reading the Book of Mormon and blogging about it daily. It was planned to be done today, Thursday, July 3, 2012, if I followed through with writing about one chapter a day. And I've done it. I've completed my goal.

I just want to share with you that I know the Book of Mormon is true. In reading it, trying to figure out a lesson from each chapter, I know it is true. It has blessed my life being able to read it. Often times I thought about how I could possibly find the time to really study a chapter a day. But I've been able to do it. During the Winter Semester, I was taking 18 credits of college courses (which I hadn't realized until halfway through). Then, during the Spring Semester, I've been attending school and planning my wedding and marriage (because I'm engaged and getting married soon, in case you weren't aware). When I made time to study the scriptures, I discovered that I was more prepared for the day. That I could get done everything else that needed to be done. I was blessed in having my heavy load of difficult homework assignments, homework assignments I didn't think I could properly complete, be done and be done early. Homework assignments and tests that I had enough time for and earned great grades on them. Please, please read the Book of Mormon. It will bless your life.

In August of 2005, President Gordon B. Hinckley gave everyone a challenge:

"We studied the Book of Mormon in Sunday School this past year. Nonetheless I offer a challenge to members of the Church throughout the world and to our friends everywhere to read or reread the Book of Mormon. If you will read a bit more than one and one-half chapters a day, you will be able to finish the book before the end of this year. Very near the end of its 239 chapters, you will find a challenge issued by the prophet Moroni as he completed his record nearly 16 centuries ago. Said he: 

'And I exhort you to remember these things; for the time speedily cometh that ye shall know that I lie not, for ye shall see me at the bar of God; and the Lord God will say unto you: Did I not declare my words unto you, which were written by this man, like as one crying from the dead, yea, even as one speaking out of the dust? … 

'And God shall show unto you, that that which I have written is true' (Moro. 10:27, 29). 

"Without reservation I promise you that if each of you will observe this simple program, regardless of how many times you previously may have read the Book of Mormon, there will come into your lives and into your homes an added measure of the Spirit of the Lord, a strengthened resolution to walk in obedience to His commandments, and a stronger testimony of the living reality of the Son of God" ("A Testimony Vibrant and True").

I'd just like to add that I know my Savior Jesus Christ lives. I know he loves me. I know that through him I can repent and return to my Heavenly Father, who also loves me. I know the Book of Mormon is true and it has blessed my life in a multitude of ways. Please read and study it for yourselves. How grateful I am for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

If you would like to know more about the Book of Mormon and what members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe in, you can meet with the missionaries here.

Here are my blog posts about each chapter in the Book of Mormon:

1 Nephi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

2 Nephi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33

Jacob 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Enos 1

Jarom 1

Omni 1

Words of Mormon 1

Mosiah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Alma 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63

Helaman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

3 Nephi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

4 Nephi 1

Mormon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Ether 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Moroni 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10