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Introduction

Due to my hard-heartedness the past couple years and not having read through the Book of Mormon once since my mission ended nearly 10 years ago, I've decided, partly inspired through some General Conference talks, to read through the Book of Mormon and start this blog. Pretty simple. I will read a chapter, and I will blog my insights. Ideally, I would do this each day, but since life happens, that may be difficult. This also may just be a passing phase, as most things are that I engage in on a day to day basis, but, who knows, maybe I'll be able to pull this off.

My insights may be spiritual. They may be goofy. I will pretty much just post whatever weird things pop in my head. Hopefully, it will be enlightening, most importantly to me, and secondly, to anybody else that may stumble upon this.

If anybody has any questions about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, here's a good website to get you started. http://www.mormon.org.

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