It has been a beautiful week. An especially sweet moment
came Friday night. Elder Ellestad and I went by to visit Caraoline and her
children to read the Book of Mormon with them before their bedtime.
It was a great evening. One of the mission rules is that if
we don't enter homes where there is not a man home, so Caraoline pulled out her
floor lamp and we sat around her outdoor table. Goshen, the eight year old,
pulled out her rainbow-firefly night light to make the perfect atmosphere to
read 1 Nephi chapter 1.
We read and the Spirit was strong. We finished the evening
with Thomas S. Monson's talk from last conference and a prayer.
Caraoline said the closing prayer. She prayed fervently that
she and her children would remain close to the Lord as they daily read the Book
of Mormon together.
The Book of Mormon is prophesied to "sweep the world as
with a flood" to direct our lives to Christ in preparation for His second
coming (Moses 7:62). It brings all people to greater faith in Him and greater
conviction of His divinity. It will continue to be the principal tool in the
conversion of nations to the fulfillment of the prophecy that in the Millennium
"the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover
the sea" (2 Nephi 21:9). "Conversion to [the Book of Mormon] is
conversion to Christ" (Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, "The Book of Mormon:
The Heart of Missionary Proselyting").
I know that if you will daily feast from the pages of the
Book of Mormon greater peace and light will come into your life. You will be
more prepared to meet the trials of life. If we read the Book of Mormon, it
will all work out.
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Jared Cummings
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