So grateful I am blind!

Ok this morning I had the most amazing conversation with one of the other sisters here in the mission. We were talking and teaching one another and I told her of something I had thought up while I was teaching a lesson some time.

 

SO often I get asked:

"Well, why did Heavenly Father need to bring forth the Book of Mormon?

Isn't the Bible good enough? Why confuse everyone?"

 

Right I could definitely see where the confusion can come.

And then I thought of this amazing analogy!

Ok I want everyone to close their eyes.

(Read a little bit ahead because if your eyes are closed your wont know what to do next haha)

 

Do it.. Close them.

Ok.

Now just open your left eye and look straight forward

What do you see?

everything in front of you and to the left correct!?

Perfect.

Alright now I am wonderful and I will go on living with just one eye closed. yeah?

 

Wait... excuse me. I like using both of my eyes. I was given two of them...

why would I only use one?

 I guess If I use both my mind really wont be able to distinguish

the two pictures each eye is bringing in!

So CLEARLY I would just use one.

Wait no.

Heavenly Father has already figured this out. When I use both of my eyes I get the full picture! I see everything that I need to see from both the right and the left side!

 

That is exactly how I look at the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

If I only use one of them

then I am missing out on half of the picture!

 

And get this! Added revelation plays into the picture too

(This is why I'm grateful I am blind)

I need my glasses to be able to see.

Well see clearly anyway.

That's just like a modern day prophet, when I follow the Prophet and listen to his council I am clearly seeing what Heavenly Father needs me to know and see.

(The way I use my glasses is to look through them right?

I can't just stare at them to make them work?

That's weird... I might be doing this wrong)

No I have to look through them, use them as a tool and then I will see clearly!

 

Ask me how I know this?

 

Because I where glasses and I use both of my eyes to see.

AND

I have prayed and asked Heavenly Father.

He is all knowing

all loving

And will tell us truth

 

Read the Book of Mormon, and listen to the Prophet and watch how your relationship with Our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ increases like crazy!

 

I know that this is the true and living church on the earth.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is for everyone!!

Because we are all Gods Children!



The Bible is in Jerusalem and The Book of Mormon is in the America's

 at the same time!

 

Who else is ready to use both their eyes again!