Book of Mormon Extravaganza

 I read the Book of Mormon in 24 hours with these beautiful young women last month!

It was such an amazing experience. We started on a Friday night at 5:00pm and finished Moroni chapter 10 at 5:00 pm on Saturday. We did have to skip a few chapters during the night to get ourselves back on track. Luckily we each had these great book marks so we could keep track of what we read so those we skipped we could make up at home on our own.



Vanessa, Kaiten, Emily, Jessica, Calli, Claire, Kimi, Meredith, Emily, Riley, and NIna



We started off by going around the room and reading a column at a time. It went amazingly well. Those girls had their books in hand and followed along. They were each provided with a scripture marker and were asked to underline everytime that Christ was mentioned in the Book of Mormon. That kept them quit busy. Did you know that Christ is mentioned in over 50 percent of the verses in the Book of Mormon, that is way more than even the Bible.  Also they drew a red heart over the word, "heart". That their hearts may be opened and they would know of the truthfulness.



Finley, Chelsea, Kacy, Abby, Pearl, Megan

 We had a great turn out! We have 40 young women in our ward. Everyone was there at one point or another except for three (we missed you girls) plus we had 4 friends come. It was such a fun night.


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Just look at this room full of girls trying to do what is right and reading from the scriptures. They inspire me!

We took breaks, very well deserved and much needed breaks.

We had an amazing dinner provided by the George family.

Around 1:00am we had ice cream sundaes.

A yummy breakfast of smoothies and bagels and a delish luch of salads and pizza.  Okay, I can not even begin to tell you about all of the sancks in between.

Sister Hourigan slicing bagels



Sister Stevenson making smoothies



Kacy, Kat, Tori, Sarah, Calli
eating a  yummy breakfast

We even had special deliveries of diet coke. Sshhh.

To break things up and keep things exciting we had guest readers come. Some dresses up , some brought goodies, some performed, some sang.......

They were always a very welcomed surprise!

I am so sad I think I got a picture of everyone but Naomi McClure who were one of the generous to come at who knows what hour in the night.

Carrie Illum

Eric Christensen sang Oh That I Were An Angel before the sun came up, it was AMAZING!

Shane and Chris Mendenhall

Julie Humphries

Lori Albright

The Stripling Warriors
aka The Elders

Helaman (Nathan Lake) and his warriors

Cynthia Elliot

Kris Clark (doesn't he look like Samuel?)

Marilyn Knecht

Bishop Spendlove wrapped things up for us.

JESUS

Rod Morris (on his birthday too)

Brother and Sister Crookston

Kim came with RodIEnos).



Stan the Man or Moroni



Janet Mendenhall

Brad, Robin, Kimi, and Brent Stevenson in oh so the middle of the night.




 

 Everyone took a nap at one point or another. I have to give props To Kimi Stevenson and Sydney Allen, I think they slept the very least.

Brenda George



Hailey, Angela, and Nina



Olivia asleep in her scriptures with marker in hand. I love this picture of my not so little girl anymore.

Angela

Amber

Jessica and Calli



Madeline



Emily and Vanessa

Kirsten

Emily

Chase

Kacy

Megan Walker

Abberoooo

Sidney trying so hard to stay awake in the sea of sleeping girls

She finally fell asleep, such a sweet picture.

It was so much fun. Such an incredible experience shared with amazing people. I learned a lot, my testimony grew, I was touched by the spirit as I think these girls were as well!

Riley, Brittney, Emily

Sarah and Katie

my OLIVIA

Emily and Hayley

Vanessa and Emily

Vanessa Young

Robin Stevenson

ME!

Brittney!

the collection of the cell phones..............

Kirsten

love these amazing ladies, Brenda, Meghan, and Megan

Chase, Sarah, Finley, Katie