You Don't Have To Shout

In August of this year, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley issued the following challenge:

"I offer a challenge to members of the Church throughout the world and to our friends everywhere to read or reread the Book of Mormon. If you will read a bit more than one and one-half chapters a day, you will be able to finish the book before the end of this year....Without reservation I promise you that if each of you will observe this simple program, regardless of how many times you previously may have read the Book of Mormon, there will come into your lives and into your homes an added measure of the Spirit of the Lord, a strengthened resolution to walk in obedience to His commandments, and a stronger testimony of the living reality of the Son of God."

I'll admit that I didn't give it much thought at the time. I've got fifteen credit hours' worth of chemistry to learn by the end of the year. When am I going to find time to do that kind of additional reading?

Well, we were reminded of this challenge in General Conference this weekend. Not just once, and not just twice. Not even three times. The speakers mentioned the challenge seven different times.

And one of them even said that if you hadn't started yet, there was still time. It wasn't too late.

Okay, I get it.