January 17, 2012
A letter from Elder Whaley: This last week we were reading The Book of Mormon with a ten year old girl. We started from the very beginning. We read the introduction and the testimony of the eleven witnesses that saw and held the plates that The Book of Mormon was translated from. After reading the testimonies and seeing the different signatures, she stopped and asked us: Why isn't God's signature there? I paused. She then asked: "Isn't God a witness of all truth?" I thought for a few seconds. Keep in mind that I had to recover from shock. This is a ten-year-old girl asking these questions and as simple as it seems I suddenly realized how important it was. I directed her back to the introduction page. In the second to the last paragraph the invitation is given to read The Book of Mormon, then to ponder in our hearts the message it contains and then to ask God the Eternal Father in the name of Christ if the book is true. And then it is promised that those who seek sincerely will receive a testimony of it's truthfulness by the power of the Holy Ghost. That's God's signature I told her. That's Him telling you whether something is right or not. That's a signature God places on your heart instead of on a page and that's a signature no man can erase, tear up. forge or burn. I then invited her to keep reading and praying about."
Great questions deserve inspired answers!
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