Hey people,
Here is another blog post. This one is about the Book of Mormon.
Who has read it? If you haven't, guess what? You should. Best book I've ever read.
One of the few, very few, that I have read more than once. It's a great book to read. I personally think that it is an even better book to study. It usually takes me a while to read it. I like soaking it all up. I think I have read it through only 2 or 3 times by myself...and I actually think I read it those 2 or 3 times very quickly, for some reason, but I've studied it a lot and I am studying it and it takes me a while to do so.
The first time I read it by myself all the way through was before my two year mission at college. At BYU-Idaho. We read and studied the 531 pages in one semester in a class. 3-4 months.
Then I got to my mission in Long Beach, California (the best mission in the world, hehe) and our mission president asked us to read it in 84 days. The amount of time it took for Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery to translate it. I procrastinated it but I finished it! Woot! It's way awesome. I think I read it through one more time on my mission at some point.
Right now I am making my own set of scriptures on a microsoft word document with pictures and articles and insights and maps and definitions and everything. I started before Christmas and I've made it through the Intro and all the way to............wait for it............1st Nephi 2. Woot! Haha. Its like 20 pages right now? Size 8 font. It's pretty cool. I want to make it into my own book.
The church has come out with timelines for all 4 standard works. Theoretically. It's pretty cool. I like them. They're cheap too. Check them out here --> http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product3_715839595_10557_21117_-1__195660
Anyway. I got a little off track.
The reason I wanted to post about the Book of Mormon is because I was studying it, am studying it. And it was really interesting. I don't know. I'll tell you the things I learned. It wasn't too profound, but it's really cool and I like it. I was studying the 1st and 2nd chapter of 1st Nephi and I was reading in the student manual for the Book of Mormon and it talked about the path that Lehi followed and it included a map in the back. I was interested in it. So I delved deeper. They talked about a place called "Nahom" and I found out through some research that some LDS scholars and researchers have found a place called "NHM" with altars with that inscription. Cool, huh? I thought it was pretty cool. There isn't too much about the place on the internet. I was looking into it more. Wikipedia, the all-knowing source of all knowledge, had a bit about it. It included that critics had issues with this find, among other things. Haha. That was interesting! Of course critics have an issue with it. There will always be critics, and they will always have issues, especially with religious things.
Anyway, I thought it was super cool that they found some evidence that this could exist. Anything they find is cool. I was trying to find more about it on the internet and on google maps, but not to much avail.
That's what I learned. The church put out an article in a January 2008 New Era about the find and Lehi's journey. It's cool.
-Jonathan
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