Finding love for reading

So, I finally opened my Book of Mormon yesterday and started in the beginning, again! I must have read the beginning a zillion times but seem to fade after awhile (except that year that President Hinckley challenged the members to read it through by a specific time frame and when I was new to the Church). Anyway, I included "read the scriptures" to my son's "chore list" and we're doing it together. So far it's working! I know it's only been two days but I feel so motivated. This way, I'll be reading the scriptures daily and my son might come to like reading the scriptures (my hubby and two other kids are in the vicinity, so blessings will shower them too).

By the way, let me explain about why I fade in reading the Book of Mormon. It's not that the book is boring or hard to read, but it's all me! Reading books in general is not my thing! I don't know why because it can actually be fun. I read a lot in my early teen years then less and less after that. Pretty sad, I know. I'm missing out. In fact, just today while having lunch with two girlfriends they were talking about books they were reading. Felt awful at being left out of the conversation (though I was tending to my kids) because I haven't read a book since the Twilight series and couldn't jump into the topic!! So, I'm going to get myself a book and start enjoying to read again. So if you've got a great book you'd like to loan me, please feel free to contact me; or if you've got a book suggestion that would be great too. Oh, you might be wondering what kind of books I would like ... well, I'm open to suggestions right now because I'm looking to broaden my horizons.

My spiritual blog

I have been striving diligently to better myself and have been making goals as a tool to accomplish that. The complete list is written in my journal. I will tell you of two significant ones. One, I made back on the third week of August when I renewed my temple recommend; I set a goal to go to the temple once-a-week and have only missed one thus far. The second, I made a few days ago and started it into action yesterday; setting a goal to do scriptures study for at least 15 minutes each day. Then, as I was watching the morning session of General Conference yesterday, the idea of blogging about my scripture study came to mind. My mind began to be exceedingly full of ideas of the process that it overwhelmed me! I finally reached a simplified program and so came the birth of my spiritual blog. Yeay! You are certainly welcome to visit and see my progress of transforming my weakness of scripture reading to becoming my strength. I look forward to my quest to be a better person for the sake of my family. I look forward to the day that I am sealed to my husband and children. May God bless me in this journey. These I pray in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.

FYI: You can find the link to my spiritual blog at the side bar under "About me" titled "My other blog" for future reference.