Search The Scriptures

 “Become acquainted with the lessons the scriptures teach. … Study them as though they were speaking to you, for such is the truth.”

   Since before I started my mission, I loved the scriptures. I'll admit though, I didn't read them as much as I should have or could have. But I remember how much joy and peace and comfort I found everytime I searched within their pages.

   Being out here on my mission has re-taught me the importance of the scriptures in every one of our lives. Every morning for 1 hour I study (mostly) the scriptures. I search within their pages for answers, not to my questions this time, but for others. I find peace and joy and I feel a greater sense of the guidance of the Holy Ghost from my Heavenly Father. And just as I did in my youth I find answers to questions I never knew existed. I have learned that any question in life can be answered through the scriptures especially the Book of Mormon and prayer.

   Most of all I have gained a greater love for the restored truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So many wonderful truths were lost but with the blessing of the Book of Mormon we find clearer answers to the questions of our souls. Any doubt, any question, any concern can be resolved or answered by searching within it's pages and then going to our Heavenly Father in prayer.

    When Jesus Christ visited the people here in the ancient americas, he commanded them to search the scriptures, to study them.
"And now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search, these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently.. And whosoever will hearken unto my words and repenteth and is baptized, the same shall be saved. Search the prophets, for many there be that testify of these things."
3 Nephi 23: 1,5

I know that through a diligent study of the scriptures that we can each find so many blessings, and the greatest of all these blessings is the one that we can find the way home to our Heavenly Father and live with him forever.