How The Book of Mormon Helped Me
In the October 2018 general conference during the women’s session, President Russell M. Nelson issued some invitations for us to follow.1 One of them was to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year. Like many of you, I wondered how I would accomplish this. I felt the Spirit urgently tell me that I needed to read as much as possible and quickly.
I gave up my normal books for a few weeks and read the Book of Mormon. Soon, I was nearly finished with Alma.
It was just as well I crammed so much, as something happened to my mum and she became very ill. Then followed lots of trips to the doctors, ambulance call outs and trips to hospital. She was ill for over a year and needed three separate operations. She was so ill we couldn’t attend Church.
Support never came from the sources I or should expect. I think this happens to many of us. I’m grateful I listened to the Spirit about the Book of Mormon. It gave me the strength I needed to endure this extremely stressful time.
The Lord never abandons us or leaves us stranded. He is always there comforting and guiding us. Help is sent sometimes in the form of strangers who we never see again. He never leaves us to cope alone, and reading the Book of Mormon helps us to handle whatever life throws at us.