So I heard about this and thought... I really don't have time to do this-BUT I figured if I don't have time to do something like this then time needs to be made!! The challenge is to read the Book of Mormon in 97 days, and it started (I believe) 2 days ago. I am going to try REALLY hard to accept this challenge and finish!! I challenge all of you to do the same!
President Gordon B. Hinckley on the Book of Mormon
"I take in my hand the Book of Mormon. I read its words. I have read Joseph Smith's explanation of how it came to be. To the unbelieving it is a story difficult to accept, and critics for generations have worn out their lives writing books intended to refute that story and to offer other explanations than the one given by Joseph the Prophet. But to the open-minded, this critical writing has only stimulated them to dig deeper; and the more deeply they dig, the greater the accumulation of evidence for the validity of Joseph Smith's story. Still, as has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the Book of Mormon will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these continue to be reassuring. The truth about the origins of the Book of Mormon will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by reading the book in a spirit of reverence and respect and prayer."
( "Praise to the Man," Ensign, Aug. 1983, 4)
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Hinckley Challenge
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I'm doing it too! I'm so glad you wrote that quote. I miss him! Good luck!
There's a guy here in SLC who's claiming to have found the 100-odd pages that Martin Harris lost. Sooo...you may have to add a few pages to your goal. Just, you know, FYI.
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