A note to Kay

Yay! I'm done reading the Book of Mormon. How are you [and everyone else] coming?

It is a wonderful book. This is the first time I have read it and let me tell you... It was amazing. I learned so much and it made me realize how blessed I am to have it in my everyday life. It has strengthened my testimony immensely. I encourage everyone to try and read it within a short time period. I have read bits and pieces my whole life but when you read it like a story it makes so much more sense!
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President Hinckley often stressed our making the Book of Mormon part of our lives. He was 97 when he passed away, and we would like to celebrate his life and teachings by reading the Book of Mormon in 97 days.

President Gordon B. Hinckley on the Book of Mormon:

"I take in my hand the Book of Mormon. I read its words. I have read Joseph Smith's explanation of how it came to be. To the unbelieving it is a story difficult to accept, and critics for generations have worn out their lives writing books intended to refute that story and to offer other explanations than the one given by Joseph the Prophet. But to the open-minded, this critical writing has only stimulated them to dig deeper; and the more deeply they dig, the greater the accumulation of evidence for the validity of Joseph Smith's story. Still, as has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the Book of Mormon will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these continue to be reassuring. The truth about the origins of the Book of Mormon will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by reading the book in a spirit of reverence and respect and prayer." (Praise to the Man, Ensigh, 1983. aug., 4)