Book of Mormon Challenge

Back in July, the Relief Society challenged each sister to read the Book of Mormon in 100 days. That meant reading approximately 5 pages a day. Wow, I don't think I have ever read so much in one sitting or at least not consistently. Fortunately there was a schedule for the reading with a few catch-up days built in. Also, to my delight, they didn't include weekends. So each weekend either became my catch-up days or get ahead days.

I just finished the Book of Mormon today. How grateful I am for this opportunity. It couldn't have come at a better time because of the struggles our family was facing with having Mario deployed. I asked Erin if she would like to join me and she did. Then I decided to include all the kids. In the past we had done most of our family scripture reading out of the Children's Book of Mormon stories since we always have young children. And there were some nights since starting the challenge that I got too far ahead of the kids so I would catch them up to where I was by reading the children's version. But for the most part, we did our family reading out of the Book of Mormon.

Our family has been blessed for doing this. One blessing that I have noticed is Nathan and Zachary's reading has greatly improved. They love to read their verse or two when it is their turn. They follow along when others are reading as well. They seem to really like this time as a family.

Because we have so many verses to read, we usually read in the evening before bed. But Mario has started implementing reading a verse or two in the morning at breakfast. His scriptures are always based on having peace at home and many days we focus on the same scriptures. So the kids are memorizing them. We noticed that recently when we missed a day of this, our day didn't go as well as the others.