A Prophet Has Died

The President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has passed away. He died the evening of January 27, 2008. When I heard the news, at first I thought I might cry. But then I thought of how much he missed his wife, how old he was (97) and all the years of service he had given and I could only be happy for him to now be reunited with his wife and going on to his next mission. We will surely miss him. His funeral was on Saturday, February 2 and was a lovely service. That's when I cried. To hear all of the stories and the wonderful things he did was so inspirational.

The next day I heard about a new website that was created called the Hinckley Challenge. They are challenging everyone to read the Book of Mormon in 97 days - one day for each year of President Hinckley's life. I took up the challenge and have already begun reading. You can see my progress below. It will update everytime I add an entry for the number of pages I have read. I hope to read it in the 97 days challenged but in any case, I plan to read the entire book this year as we are studying it in Sunday School. Wish me luck!