This page
was written by Moroni. The first thing
that came to my mind was the aluminum plates we made in seminary. We would cut out a piece of card-stock about
the size we thought the gold plates would be.
Then, on one side of the card-stock we would write our testimonies. Then we would make up symbols to represent the
words of our testimony. Next, we would
attach a sheet of aluminum foil to the other side of the card-stock and
carefully engrave the foil with the symbols of our testimony. It was fun to put ourselves in Moroni’s and
Mormon’s shoes. In this small way we
felt a little of what they must of felt as they recorded sacred things.
When one of
my students, Eric Prather, was killed in a car crash, I was asked to speak at
his funeral. I had kept his aluminum
plate with his testimony engraved. I was
able to share it with the congregation.
It was a very spiritual and sacred experience for me and them as Eric spoke
his testimony “from the dust.”
As I read Moroni’s
title page for the Book of Mormon I was struck with the phrase, “Which is to
show unto remnant of the House of Israel what
great things the Lord hath done for their fathers.” I feel the Lord has done so many great things
for me and my children. His blessings
continue to be manifest every day of our lives here on Mother Earth. I know, like Moroni, that JESUS is the
CHRIST.
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