Lacee and I decided that since the project for Virtue is to read the entire Book of Mormon we better get started with that. So we are going to do the Required value experience and try and get them done by the end of October. We are also going to try and read a chapter and half each day so that we can finish the Book of Mormon in a year. This value experience asked me to read Moroni 9:9, Jacob 2:28, "The Family: A Proclamation to the World"; the section on Sexual Purity in For the Strength of Youth; the 13th Article of Faith and Proverbs 31:10-31.
These were some beautiful scriptures. I especially enjoy reading Proverbs 31:10-31 about a virtuous women. That is the kind of mother and wife I hope to be. The women that I picture in that scripture is a women of power and strength. She has courage and she works hard. She is smart and resourceful. She is kind and loving. I think that all of these traits are already in me, Heavenly Father has given me everything I need. I just need to work hard to bring those traits out. Its not going to happen all at once but I know that by working hard I will become the women I want to be.
Today I read the first two chapters on 1st Nephi. I know I've read them a thousand times but its amazing how I will always find something new. 1 Nephi 2:16, Nephi shares an experience he had with prayer. Lehi has taken the family out of Jerusalem and into the wilderness because of a vision he had. Nephi goes to the Lord and cries unto him to know if what his father had spoken was true. The spirit came to him and testified of the truthfulness of his fathers words. I thought that this was interesting because you never hear of Laman and Lemuel going and praying to find out if their father was really a prophet. They saw many marvelous things or "signs" as some people call them. But they still could not keep their testimonies strong. Maybe that's why Heavenly Father doesn't send us all angels to let us know the church is true. It is only by prayer and dedication that we can keep our testimonies strong like Nephi and not falter and lose our way like Laman and Lemuel.
These were some beautiful scriptures. I especially enjoy reading Proverbs 31:10-31 about a virtuous women. That is the kind of mother and wife I hope to be. The women that I picture in that scripture is a women of power and strength. She has courage and she works hard. She is smart and resourceful. She is kind and loving. I think that all of these traits are already in me, Heavenly Father has given me everything I need. I just need to work hard to bring those traits out. Its not going to happen all at once but I know that by working hard I will become the women I want to be.
Today I read the first two chapters on 1st Nephi. I know I've read them a thousand times but its amazing how I will always find something new. 1 Nephi 2:16, Nephi shares an experience he had with prayer. Lehi has taken the family out of Jerusalem and into the wilderness because of a vision he had. Nephi goes to the Lord and cries unto him to know if what his father had spoken was true. The spirit came to him and testified of the truthfulness of his fathers words. I thought that this was interesting because you never hear of Laman and Lemuel going and praying to find out if their father was really a prophet. They saw many marvelous things or "signs" as some people call them. But they still could not keep their testimonies strong. Maybe that's why Heavenly Father doesn't send us all angels to let us know the church is true. It is only by prayer and dedication that we can keep our testimonies strong like Nephi and not falter and lose our way like Laman and Lemuel.
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