#discoverthebook

I've been Mormon all my life, so asking when I first discovered the Book of Mormon is a bit like asking when I first discovered water. It has just always been there. Some of my earliest memories of the Book of Mormon include singing "Book of Mormon Stories" and "The Iron Rod" in church. As a kid I once sat in a Primary class watching a Book of Mormon filmstrip. Troublingly, I only remember one image from that filmstrip, but that one stands out vividly. It is a cartoon of two Book of Mormon characters (Laman and Lemuel) emerging one morning from their tent to find to their shock and horror that their skin has turned dark overnight by the curse of God. That image, and the racism that it implicitly carries, has haunted my imagination throughout my life. As I grew I would find in The Book of Mormon deep and powerful ideas that define my morality and world view…but that is a story for later in this little series. #discoverthebook #mormon #lds #calledtoshare