Week 1

Sometimes when I start to read The Book of Mormon from the beginning again I like to use a brand new blue paper back copy. I feel like it helps me to get entirely new revelations since I'm not distracted by other marks or notes and it helps me to see what I'm looking for, and what has changed, in my life now compared to the last time I read.

As I have been reading at the beginning of this new semester I was able to read with a good friend of mine. We were reading in 1 Nephi Chapter 11. A verse I have always loved but seemed even more applicable now than ever to me was verse 1. I love the very clear pattern for revelation that it gives. Nephi had desire to know. He believed that the Lord would be able to make them known unto him. He sat and pondered in his heart, and then he was "caught away in the Spirit of the Lord' and was taken places he'd never been and saw things he'd never seen.

This passage has come to mean a lot to me as I've sought revelation in my life but this time as I read it I was struck by the simplicity. His pure desire ended with him seeing a vision of the savior. The revelations that I seek in my life probably aren't going to result in a vision like what Nephi saw but I know that as I seek to know, trust the Lord, and ponder on what I already know that the Lord will take me where I need to go and show me things that I've never seen before. It may not even be what I ask for when I get the revelation, but it'll be what the Lord wants for me.