To everyone:

I just wanted to leave my two cents here for everyone – nonmembers, members, struggling members, and you. I know that people can be so “preachy” sometimes, and that can make it hard to explain, form, and live your own beliefs. 

If you’re lacking in faith, searching for a testimony, or just here to learn more about our beliefs, may I direct you to mormon.org, an official website put together by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for people just like you. 

Regarding the Book of Mormon:

I can’t convince you to believe anything, nor can I give you a testimony. As with anything good in life, you have to do it for yourself: a first kiss, pursuing an uplifting education, or fostering a happy marriage (and family). Things that are spiritual in nature can only be learned in a spiritual manner, namely praying. 

Christ taught “by their fruits ye shall know them”. The only way to find out of the Book of Mormon is true is to read it for yourself and ask God – your father in Heaven – if it is true. As the last Book of Mormon prophet, Moroni, so beautifully stated: “Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things…that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.”