El Libro de Mormón

For the past two summers I have had the goal of reading the Book of Mormon in a week. Yes that's right, a week. My mom gave me the idea. She has done it several times. In fact, one time she read it 6 times in 6 weeks. Wow! I decided that as much as I like to read and as many hours a day as I spend reading other books, I certainly could read the Book of Mormon in a week once a year. As I have mentioned on this blog, I was given the impression to learn Spanish last fall and have been using a Spanish Book of Mormon to help me. I decided to listen to my Spanish Book of Mormon as I read it in English and I just finished today right before church. What an incredible experience. When I read the Book of Mormon in English I spend about 3 hours a day to meet my goal of 75 pages a day and the whole thing in a week, but listening took about 4 1/2 hours a day. It was tricky sometimes to fit that into my schedule, but the sacrifice was so worth it. I picked up more Spanish vocabulary in this past week than I have in the 9 months I've been trying to learn. I still can't say much, but I can understand ALOT of what I read and listen to. I'm so amazed at the power of the Book of Mormon in every aspect of our lives. I'm constantly learning more from my regular study of this divine book.

I want to try and bear my testimony in Spanish. Kevin said to preface it with: "It's true as far as it is translated correctly." For those of you who are "real" Spanish speakers, I preface this as Moroni did when he said, "y tú has hecho que no podamos escribir sino poco, a causa de la torpeza de nuestras manos. He aquí, no nos has hecho fuertes en escribir, como al hermano de Jared; porque le concediste que las cosas que él escribiera fuesen tan potentes como tú lo eres, al grado de dominar al hombre al leerlas. (Éter 12:24)

Yo sé que El Libro de Mormón es la palabra de Dios. Yo sé que El Libro de Mormón es el libro más correcto en todas el mundo. Yo sé que Joseph Smith es un profeta y restaura la iglesia de Jesuscristo. Yo sé que Thomas S. Monson es un profeta hoy. La iglesia de Jesucristo es la iglesia verdad. En el nombre de Jesucristo, amén.