The Hinckley Challenge Completed!

When our church president and prophet, President Hinckley died at the end of January, a challenge was issued to read the Book of Mormon in 97 days - one day for every year of President Hinckley's life. The challenge is set to end on May 10th.

I honestly did not think it was a challenge that I would be able to complete. My scripture study habits have been severely lacking. However, this challenge was just the thing I needed to push me to strive to be a little better.

I cannot adequately express how my testimony of the Book of Mormon has been strengthened as I have been reading it the past 3 months. I know that it is another testament of Jesus Christ and was translated by Joseph Smith. I hope I can continue the good habit that has started and draw closer to my Heavenly Father and his Son, Jesus Christ.

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, 1983. Aug., 4)