Christ is the Chief Cornerstone of His church.
"The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator."
-- Alma 30:44
Many times in Life we seem to put ourselves in a position we need something but have to wait on others before we will be able to get it. If we are always trying to move forward it becomes easy to forget that we sometimes need to "be still and know that [He is] God."(Psalms 46:10)
Even when we are pained from seeing someone else struggle, we might be able to help them more by allowing them to figure it out and being patient with them, even if we already have a solution.
“We should learn to be patient with ourselves.
Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses,
we should strive to use good judgment in all of our choices and decisions,
make good use of every opportunity,
and do our best in every task we undertake.
We should not be unduly discouraged
nor in despair at any time when we are doing the best we can.
I sometimes struggle because I feel that I am not 'good enough'. A good friend showed me the other day that even if I do something stupid every now and again, it doesn't make me a bad person.
There are 168 hours in a week which is 10,080 minutes. Even if I was to do something stupid for 30 minutes a day, only 2.08% of my week was stupid. If 60% was a passing grade, I think most of us are at least C average because we spend roughly 30% of our time in bed. Knowing that I was doing much better than my brain thought I was has helped me to move forward, feel better about who I am, and what I do.
As a missionary I often ask people to read the Book of Mormon. Missionaries ask people to pray and ask God if the Book of Mormon is true, and to come to church so they can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit more powerfully, and to learn more about God and His commandments and His kingdom here on the earth.
We are always asking because we know that in order to truly understand something you have to act in faith to see what happens. I know that the Book of Mormon is true because I have read and prayed about it myself, not because someone else told me a little bit about it and I said 'hey why not'. My journey to truly knowing what the Book of Mormon was just that, a journey meant for me to be able to understand the gospel, and how it applies in my own life.
So are YOU going to do something about it, or are you just going to sit there and read all about it without ever truly trying to figure it out for yourself??
I hereby invite anyone reading this to Read the Book of Mormon, Pray and ask God if it is a True record, and then to act in Faith. I know that anyone who follows this course will feel the Spirit, and know what to do to come closer to Jesus Christ.
Any questions you may have can be answered by reading and praying about this book. If you would like to learn more, or ask missionaries in your area about the Book of Mormon, please go to one of the following. http://mormon.org/missionaries/ to talk to the missionaries. http://mormon.org/faith/ to understand what we believe. http://mormon.org/meetinghouse/ to locate the nearest meetinghouse to you.
The Book of Mormon is a sacred record of peoples in ancient America, and was engraved upon sheets of metal. Four kinds of metal plates are spoken of in the book itself:
The Plates of Nephi, which were of two kinds: the Small Plates and the Large Plates. The former were more particularly devoted to the spiritual matters and the ministry and teachings of the prophets, while the latter were occupied mostly by a secular history of the peoples concerned (1 Nephi 9:2–4). From the time of Mosiah, however, the large plates also included items of major spiritual importance.
The Plates of Mormon, which consist of an abridgment by Mormon from the Large Plates of Nephi, with many commentaries. These plates also contained a continuation of the history by Mormon and additions by his son Moroni.
The Plates of Ether, which present a history of the Jaredites. This record was abridged by Moroni, who inserted comments of his own and incorporated the record with the general history under the title “Book of Ether.”
The Plates of Brass brought by the people of Lehi from Jerusalem in 600 B.C. These contained “the five books of Moses, … And also a record of the Jews from the beginning, … down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah; And also the prophecies of the holy prophets” (1 Nephi 5:11–13). Many quotations from these plates, citing Isaiah and other biblical and nonbiblical prophets, appear in the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon comprises fifteen main parts or divisions, known, with one exception, as books, each designated by the name of its principal author. The first portion (the first six books, ending with Omni) is a translation from the Small Plates of Nephi. Between the books of Omni and Mosiah is an insert called The Words of Mormon. This insert connects the record engraved on the Small Plates with Mormon’s abridgment of the Large Plates.
The longest portion, from Mosiah to Mormon, chapter 7, inclusive, is a translation of Mormon’s abridgment of the Large Plates of Nephi. The concluding portion, from Mormon, chapter 8, to the end of the volume, was engraved by Mormon’s son Moroni, who, after finishing the record of his father’s life, made an abridgment of the Jaredite record (as the Book of Ether) and later added the parts known as the Book of Moroni.
In or about the year A.D. 421, Moroni, the last of the Nephite prophet-historians, sealed the sacred record and hid it up unto the Lord, to be brought forth in the latter days, as predicted by the voice of God through his ancient prophets. In A.D. 1823, this same Moroni, then a resurrected personage, visited the Prophet Joseph Smith and subsequently delivered the engraved plates to him.
