It has been some time since I have written in this blog. I’m not going to promise anything (looking at the blog history, it looks like my pattern has been one post a year for awhile), but I thought I might like to start posting a few thoughts here again.
Years ago, when Jackie was in the second grade she told me she was one of the better readers in her class, then she asked me if I knew why this was the case. I didn’t. She said she thought it was because we read the Book of Mormon together as a family.
I continue to plug away at trying to learn how to speak Spanish. I have learned the temple ordinances (that we speak) in Spanish and have been having a weekly tutoring session with an RM from the MTC. And I am reading Spanish short stories and practicing speaking in Spanish and I attend a Spanish Sunday School class in the Flushing Branch and I work on grammar and flip 3x5 cards or listen to Spanish lessons when I go on my daily walk. But I have also been reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish every day since we were in Paraguay a year and a half ago. I think it is helping.
It has been interesting to read the Book of Mormon in Spanish. It forces me to think about every word.
I think it is important to pray before we read from the Book of Mormon. President Oaks, in talking about this, said this doesn’t need to be a big formal prayer (nor on our knees), but more like a prayer we would offer on food we are about to eat, because, as he pointed out, it is spiritual food.
I am always grateful for when I am taught by the Spirit as I read from the Scriptures. They are a wonderful gift—certainly the bread and water of life.
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