hello everyone welcome back to another
episode of unofficial missionary today
what we want to talk about is the Book
of Mormon and I always do my little book
we are so excited to talk about it today
and we want to talk about the process of
it as well something that I want I guess
we both want to say all of us and that
we don't feel that the Book of Mormon
reposes the Bible in any possible way
like right not at all
we believe that it adds to the Bible and
helps us understand Christ more so we
only talk about that process with you
yes this is how I always looked at it as
only father knew that people weren't
just going to believe and that we were
going to need extra guidance in these
times and so he had this huge plan
prepared and it all started with Joseph
Smith being invited to a hill called the
Hill Cumorah
and he was invited to dig up these gold
plates with like letters pounded in them
heavy right this angel called the angel
Moroni came to Joseph Smith when he was
a teenager and showed him where these
plates were and Joseph Smith goes to
this mountain and finds these scriptures
these ancient scriptures in the ground
but he's not allowed to grab them yet
and this in girona is like okay now you
know where they are but you're not
around
he's like you're not allowed to grab
them until you're prepared and so just
miss like what does that mean he's like
leader know when you're older yeah I
don't know something like that but he
just got prepared and more prepared to
the day came when he finally could
actually grab the golden plates and
start to translate them with what's
called the Yurman dome that also yeah
that's true and um
with the plates also found the Urim and
Thummim so we would be able to translate
this book through the power of God he
had actually ascribed someone helping
him at all times it was Emma for a while
his wife and then it eventually turned
into all the Calgary and different
people yeah it was just people who God
felt we're qualified to be able to do
this and the translation process was
really cool because Joseph Smith
literally did it like without notes and
they said that like Joseph Smith was
literally like sit down and just start
from right where he left off without
even like errors or anything and the
describes it just go let's go to town
and so it's just crazy there's so many
stories about um you know what they went
through to get these get this book
translated and then printed it looked a
little different when I was first
printed there wasn't punctuation
it wasn't verses in Shafter yeah that's
so true I think one of the coolest part
about this process of translation that
they went through would that Joseph
Smith found truths that he didn't even
know while he was translating yes he
found these scriptures that range her to
his heart or he found different things
that comforted him and his trials that
he'd been through in life because he was
a normal dude right and yeah I think
that's something really awesome about
the Mormon leading into what it can do
for us as we read this book more light
will come into our lives we don't just
learn or Jesus Christ but we become I
feel like they've become kinder we come
better we we want to refine ourselves
and we become more protected and God
reveals these specific truths to us that
we we need to know to improve our own
lives and our own selves yeah so anyway
I can't emphasize enough how this Book
of Mormon should be read with like a
spiritual eye that if you read it just
because it's like okay I'm just gonna
read it just so that I can say that I
read it it's not gonna help you as much
as if you read it with a prayer in your
heart literally I'm it's God's words for
us today and so it can bliss or life if
you go in with that intention but but
you might be asking yourself what even
is in the Book of Mormon what is it
about I kind of want to go at the
introduction real quick so Joseph Smith
you know starts translating and
this is what he gets the Book of Mormon
is an account written by the hand of
Mormon upon plates taken from the place
of Nephi what like what does it even
mean
well what's cool is there's a story in
here about a prophet named Nephi who
lived in Jerusalem and then him and his
father his father Lehi they received
revelation that they needed to leave
Jerusalem because it's gonna be
destroyed
so they did they listen to God they're
left with their family and they went and
they were guided by Heavenly Father to
the Americas and then started a people
in the Americas and they grew and grew
in population you guys don't know how
that happens you know over years in
population just grows and they and they
had their this there's huge history you
know like of wars and rumors of wars and
good times good times and bad times and
prophets and Antichrist and and there
was in this whole time this is like
hundreds of years are going by that's
true yeah what is the Christ actually
appears to the people in the Americas
and so we believe just as he appeared in
Jerusalem that he also appeared to his
people in the Americas to show them that
he cared for them and he loved them and
I feel like that for me is such a
testimony that Christ really does care
individually and that for me it shows
that he he can come to each of us
individually and reach us on our own
individual level and come and find us
yeah that's kind of how I've always seen
it and people always like what he didn't
come over here yeah I'm like why
wouldn't he yeah totally
if he had people who were faithful and
good why not
and if he doesn't if he could care about
them then why not yeah why not care
about us today that's cool I think
you'll find as you read the book of
Mormon a lot of experiences that you
know these stories that are happening to
these ancient people that you actually
can relate to to a lot like surprisingly
the Book of Mormon was literally written
for us this transfer
exactly so to finish off our little
compendium of what the Book of Mormon is
we just want to tell you why it's called
the Book of Mormon and simply because at
the end of the book there is this
prophet named Mormon and he was charged
with creating a bridge my Bridgman
bringing it all together yeah because
there's all these different records from
all the history of these people and God
guided him to just create an abridgment
and that's what we've got here
yeah this is just like like 10% of the
story of this people yeah but it's the
10% that God needed us to have today
yeah and and then Mormon gave the bat
abridgement to his son Moroni and Maroni
I'm hid these plates these golden plates
in the earth and that is the say Moroni
who came to Joseph Smith as an angel to
tell him what are the plates scriptures
that Moroni when he was putting them
away I guess or like ending the Book of
Mormon and this is kind of like his
invitation I feel like for all of us to
read this book because he felt so
strongly that there was a reason this
was created right but anyway um in
Moroni 10 3 through 4 it actually says
this behold I would exhort you that when
you shall read these things if it be
wisdom and God that you should read them
that you would remember how merciful the
Lord hath been unto the children of men
and when you shall receive these things
I would exhort you that you would ask
God the Eternal Father in the name of
Christ if these things are not true and
if you shall ask with a sincere heart
with real intent having faith in Christ
he will manifest the truth of it unto
you by the power of the Holy Ghost and
what a neat promise them when I give us
to be able to know that this book is of
God he he says don't just take my word
for it but seek diligently to know and
just like he's done for thousands of
years he cares for us individually and
he wants us to know he's there he's
waiting for us to reach out to him I
personally if I prayed to know if the
Book of Mormon is true and and I've
received an answer and it's not like I'm
going to tell
oh if you pray you'll feel this specific
way or you'll see a sign like this it's
something very personal but it's to the
point where you like where you can't
deny it
in the same way that you know you know
that you love someone or that you know
you you left the test and you know that
you just did well you know like it's
just this feeling that only you can
describe only if you've experienced it
but you can't like don't knock it till
you've tried it because if you do
receive that confirmation that the Book
of Mormon is true then like this this is
the keystone of our religion that the
Book of Mormon is true everything else
rests on it you know the fact that we
have a prophet today you'll know if
that's true because the Book of Mormon
is true you know if Jesus Christ as your
Savior if heavenly father exists like
all of that comes whether or not you
feel that confirmation from the spirit
that these words are from God you could
listen to people tell you all day
whether it's right or whether it's wrong
you could listen to all the people
against the church you could listen to
all the people for the church none of
that's going to matter if you don't look
for an answer yourself so please read
and pray and then seek for an answer I
know you'll find one so if you have any
questions and if you're having a hard
time with that please reach out to us
because it can be tough and how to
recognize the spirit and that's a whole
other thing that we want to talk about
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