BofM Summer Challenge Journal - Book of Mormon 65 day Challenge

Come Unto Ch!"
Book of Mormon
B o o k
C l u b
start to finish in 65 days
Journal
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"There is a power in the book [of Mormon] which will begin to flow into your lives
the moment you begin a serious study of the book. You will find greater power to
resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the
power to stay on the strait and narrow path. The scriptures are called 'the words
of life' (see D&C 84:85), and nowhere is that more true than it is of the Book of
Mormon. When you begin to hunger and thirst after those words, you will find life
in greater and greater abundance." (Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, Nov. 1986, p. 7)
I
s
June 15- June 21
week two
Title Page,
1 Nephi 1- 3
r
T U E S D AY
W E D N E S D AY
T H U R S D AY
F R I D AY
S AT U R D AY
1 Nephi 11 - 15
1 Nephi 16 - 18
1 Nephi 19 - 22
2 Nephi 1- 5
1 Nephi 4 - 7
1 Nephi 8 -10
small plates of Nephi
visions of the
tree of life
2 Nephi 6 - 10
2 Nephi 11 - 14
2 Nephi 15-19
words of Isaiah
words of Isaiah
week three
Jacob 6, 7
Enos
July 6 - July 12
e
M O N D AY
trips between city
& tent
June 22- June 28
week four
m
start to finish in 65 days
words of Jacob
(son of Lehi)
June 29- July 5
m
B of M CHALLENGE
S U N D AY
week one
u
on Judah & Jerusalem
Jarom, Omni;
Words of Mormon
start of
Mormon’s Abridgement)
on Judah & Jerusalem
visions of the
tree of life
journey in the
wilderness
2 Nephi 20-24
2 Nephi 26 - 30
2 Nephi 31-33
ministry in the
promised land
words of Isaiah
words of Isaiah
on Judah & Jerusalem
& foreign nations
Nephi prophesies
using Isaiah
word of Nephi on
doctrines of Christ
words of Lehi
Jacob 1 - 5
Mosiah 1- 4
Mosiah 5 - 8
Mosiah 9 - 11
Mosiah 12 - 15
King Benjamin in
Zarahemla
King Benjamin in
Zarahemla
the people of
Zeniff
King Noah &
Abinadi
Alma 5 - 8
Alma 9 - 12
Alma 13- 16
Alma 17 - 20
Alma travels
& preaches
Alma travels
& preaches
the mission of the
sons of Mosiah
Mosiah 20 - 24
Mosiah 25 - 29
Alma 1- 4
King Limhi
& people of Alma
the new Nephite
nation
the record of Alma
and Contentions
Alma travels
& preaches
Alma 21- 24
Alma 25 - 29
the mission of the
sons of Mosiah
the mission of the
sons of Mosiah
week six
Alma 46 - 50
Alma 51- 55
Alma 56 - 58
July 20 - July 26
Amalikiah’s
dissension
war by the
east sea
ware by the
west sea
week seven
Heleman 11, 12
Heleman 13 - 16
the work of
destruction
Samuel the Lamanite
prophecies
3 Nephi 19 - 22
Jesus Christ’s Ministry
2nd day
Ether 7 - 9
Ether 10, 11
Ether 12 - 15
Moroni 1 - 3
Moroni 4 - 6
Moroni 7 - 9
Jaredite kings
Jaredite kings
Ether
church practices
church practices
sayings of Mormon
July 27- Aug 2
week eight
Aug 3 - Aug 9
week nine
Aug 10 - Aug 16
week ten
Aug 17 - Aug18
Ether 4 - 6
the brother of
Jared
Moroni 10
Moroni’s closing
write UR testiomony
Alma 30 - 35
the Zoramites
Alma 59 - 63
Heleman 1 - 4
Alma 39 - 42
King Noah
& Abinadi
July 13 - July 19
week five
Alma 36 - 38
Catch Up, Check In
Alma’s commandments
& Chow Down
to his sons
Mosiah 16 - 19
Alma’s commandments
to his sons
Heleman 5 - 6
wars & dissensions
(Gadianton’s band)
Alma 43 - 45
war with Lamanites;
begin record of Heleman
Heleman 7 - 10
victory & peace
wars & dissensions
(Gadianton’s band)
3 Nephi 1 - 4
3 Nephi 5 - 7
3 Nephi 8 - 10
3 Nephi 11 - 14
3 Nephi 15 - 18
the great
& terrible day
war with Gadianton
robbers
destruction of the
wicked
Jesus Christ’s Ministry
1st day
Jesus Christ’s Ministry
1st day
3 Nephi 23 - 26
3 Nephi 27 - 30
Jesus Christ’s Ministry
2nd day
the disciple’s
ministry
4 Nephi
Mormon 1 - 3
Mormon 4 - 7
Book of Mormon
Book Club
writings of Mormon
Nephi prophesies
Mormon 8 - 9
Ether 1 - 3
start of
Moroni’s additions
the brother of
Jared
FuN
fAcT
The Prophet Joseph Smith worked by the gift and power
of God amid numerous interruptions, bitter
persecutions, and even the “most strenuous exertions”
to wrest the actual plates from him (JS—H 1:60). His was
not the tranquil life of a detached scholar in some
sheltered sanctuary where he could work at his
uninterrupted leisure. Chores had to be done. His family
had to be cared for. Joseph was so conscientious that
the Lord counseled him: “Do not run faster or labor
more than you have strength and means provided to
enable you to translate; but be diligent unto the
end” (D&C 10:4).
One marvel is the very rapidity with which Joseph was
translating—at an estimated average rate of eight of
our printed pages per day! The total translation time
was about 65 working days. (See “How long did it take
Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon?”
Ensign, Jan. 1988, 47.) By comparison, one able LDS
translator in Japan, surrounded by reference books,
language dictionaries, and translator colleagues
ready to help if needed, indicated that he considered an
output of one careful, final page a day to be productive.
And he is retranslating from earlier Japanese to
modern Japanese! More than 50 able English scholars
labored for seven years, using previous translations,
to produce the King James Version of the Bible,
averaging about one precious page per day.
The Prophet Joseph Smith would sometimes produce 10
pages per day! (see the bulletin Insights: An Ancient
Window [Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research
and Mormon Studies (F.A.R.M.S.), Feb. 1986], 1).
Elder Neal A. MAxwell
JAN Ensign 1997 “ by the gift and power of God”
The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is record of God’s
dealing with ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains the fulness of the everlasting gospel.
The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. Their
words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon.
The record gives an account of two great civilizations. One came from Jerusalem in 600 B.C. and
afterward separated into two nations, known as the Nephites and the Lamanites. The other came
much earlier when the Lord confounded the tongues at the Tower of Babel. This group is known as
the Jaredites. After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the
principal ancestors of the American Indians.
- Introduction to Book of Mormon
I
BofM
The Book of Mormon was written for our day. It testifies of
Jesus Christ, contains the fulness of His gospel, and restores
truths lost through the Apostasy. Joseph Smith taught that the
Book of Mormon is “the keystone of our religion, and a man
would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any
other book” (introduction to the Book of Mormon).
The
Book
of
Mormon
is
the
best
guide
to
learn
how
well
we
are
doing
and
how
to
do
better.
First,
we
promised
to
become
charitable.
Second,
we
promised
to
become
witnesses
of
God.
And
third,
we
promised
to
endure.
The
Book
of
Mormon
is
the
best
guide
to
learn
how
well
we
are
doing
and
how
to
do
better.
-
Henry
B.
Eyring
Why do we
need the Book
of Mormon?
perhaps no other book in modern religious history - perhaps
1 Nephi 13:40; 2 Nephi 3:12; Articles of Faith 5
(The Book of Mormon complements the Bible,
restores precious truths, and confounds false
doctrine)
Failed theories about its origins have been born and
2 Nephi 25:23, 26, 33:10-11
For 179 years the book has been examined and attacked,
denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like
like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands.
parroted and died - from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding
to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these
frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood
examination because there is no other answer than the one
Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I
(The Book of Mormon writers
testify of Jesus Christ)
D&C 20:8-16 (The Book of Mormon
contains the fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ)
stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply
enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this;
2 Nephi 29:7-11 (The Book of
were commanded of God to do so.”
Mormon shows that God speaks to
His children in many nations)
and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he
- Elder Jeffery R. Holland
But why is the Book of Mormon so essential if we already
have the Bible to teach us about Jesus Christ? Have you ever
wondered why there are so many Christian churches in the
world today when they obtain the same doctrine from
essentially the same Bible? It is because they interpret the
Bible differently. If they interpreted it the same, they would be
the same church. This is not a condition the Lord desires, for
the Apostle Paul declared that there is “one Lord, one faith, on
baptism” (Ephesians 4:5). To help bring this oneness about,
the Lord established a divine law of witnesses. Paul taught,
“In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be
established” (2 Cornithians 13:1).
The Bible is one witness of Jesus Christ; the Book of Mormon
is another. Why is this second witness so crucial? The
following illustration may help. How many straight lines can
you draw through a single point on a piece of paper? The
answer is infinite. For a moment, suppose that single point
represents the Bible and that hundreds of those straight lines
drawn through that point represent different interpretations of
the Bible and that each of those interpretations represents a
different church.
What happens, however, if on that piece of paper there is a
second point representing the Book of Mormon? How many
straight lines could you draw between these two reference
points: the Bible and the Book of Mormon? Only one
interpretation of Christ’s doctrine survives the testimony of
these two witnesses.
Before Challenge
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