wow... been a long, long time. the holidays were great, yadda yadda yadda. but what i really wanted to blog about was the things that happened last night at my missionary prep class. Brent gave a good lesson on faith, and it is in fact what all religions (including mormonism) are based on. A leap of faith is exactly what our heavenly father wants us to take. example: the book of mormon. if the plates were here now, and translated by intelectuals, then there wouldnt be any faith involved in believing the truthfulness of it. testimonies are based on faith, and so is everything else. at the end of the meeting, brent asked us to share our testimonies, and even though everyone's testimony (including mine) were quite small and underdeveloped, i really felt the spirit there, and hearing the testimonies of my friends boosted my own testimony. Also, just the act of bearing my testimony built mine stronger. it made me think about the things i know and dont know. but latley i have been struggling with my testimony of the book of mormon, because after i read it i prayed about it, i never recieve a direct anwser, but i realised last night, while i was bearing my testimony, that i allready had a testimony of the book of mormon. there is no doubt in my mind that it is not true; there is no way that it could have been made up. i dont think i would have read it if i did not know that the words on the pages were true.