{"id":68,"date":"2008-12-01T20:56:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T02:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-12-01T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T23:11:14","slug":"book-of-mormon-challenge-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/book-of-mormon-challenge-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of Mormon Challenge Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had a chance to finish the <a href=\"http:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-book-of-mormon-challenge-anniversary\/\">Book of Mormon Challenge Anniversary<\/a>. Even with lots of other distractions like school and Holidays, I managed to finish a little bit early, which I am really proud of myself for. The first time I did this challenge, back when President Hinckley issued the challenge to everyone, I spent a lot of Christmas break reading, but this time I felt less rushed and it went really well. I regret that I didn&#8217;t post updates here more often, because I really learned a lot. I can share with you, though, that my testimony of the Book of Mormon has grown. I know that it is true, and I know that reading it daily has helped me considerably.<\/p>\n<p>One of the final books in the Book of Mormon is actually written by a prophet named Mormon (he compiled many records together, so that is why the whole work also bears his name). As I was reading through his writings, I was impressed by the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptures.lds.org\/en\/morm\/1\/14-15\">he was faithful when all others around had forgotten about God<\/a>. I have thought a lot recently about wickedness in the world, and it seems like fewer and fewer people believe in God, and those who don&#8217;t are very adamant about their ideas. Mormon&#8217;s writings help me recognize that living the gospel is possible in a godless world.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who participated in the Book of Mormon Challenge with me! I&#8217;d love to hear more about your experiences reading the Book of Mormon again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had a chance to finish the Book of Mormon Challenge Anniversary. Even with lots of other distractions like school and Holidays, I managed to finish a little bit early, which I am really proud of myself for. The first time I did this challenge, back when President Hinckley issued the challenge to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboveyourself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}