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POSTED BY: captain15
DATE: 10.11.2008
SUBJECT: How I came to the B of Mormon
LOCATION: Powell, United States
It is actually quite interesting how I came to The Book of Mormon. I first had to meet a girl. Yes, there was a girl in my Junior High School that I liked. I was very interested in her and wanted to get to know her. I don't know where I heard it but someone told me she was a Mormon. I had no idea what that meant or what one was.

My family had not been very religious. We never went to church except for once when my Grandfather wanted to go. It was a Southern Baptist church and I admit I fell asleep during the sermon, and every other part of the service. I was young and didn't know anything that was going on. But while I was one day in our School library I saw it. It was on a shelf in a section of books labeled mythology. I saw there The Book of Mormon and I remembered hearing that word.

I picked up the book, checked it out and began reading it. I got half way through it before the year ended. I just kept re-checking it out everytime it was due. I have to admit that I almost didn't take it back at the end of the year. Then I left it there thinking I'd probably never get to see it again. I was to stupid to realize that there had to be more than one copy in the world.

In my Freshman year of High School in the library, I found another copy. I was so excited. I checked it out and finished reading it. It was the first book of scripture I had ever read. It captured my attention and held it through out. I completely read through this volume of literature before the missionaries ever found me. I had a testimony of it and knew it was true.

I remember sitting with the missionaries when they first arrived at my house and telling them that I'd already read The Book of Mormon as they handed me my very first and own personal copy. I don't know what ever happened to that copy. I re-read that book every year and every year it has saved me. It spurs me on to be better than what I am and I am grateful for it.

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