Stretching

The past 7 days I have been doing a lot of reading, the materials have been slightly different from each other. I have been reading Jane Eyre, and it took me a little while but I have finally got into the meaty portion of the book. The part where I really want to find out what is going to happen to the character. At the same time the sisters in my ward have been challenged to read the Book of Mormon in 30 days. I am not always the one to jump on board with these challenges. Let's be honest, I struggled with the read it in a year challenge. I tried again to read it in 3 months. I, admittedly, am not the best at this stuff. So when this challenge was given, I felt the little twinge in my heart that told me I needed to get on the ball and do it. So after a couple days of reading Jane and neglecting Nephi I have been doing some extensive catch up. I'm talking about reading 30 chapters or so to catch up. I discovered that speed reading the Isiah chapters produced about the same amount of understanding as when I read it slowly. At this very moment I am caught up. It feels good. I am at work and have a little bit of quiet time so hopefully I will get a little ahead. I really hope that I can be diligent and see this through to the end. It is one of those weak things that I most definitely need to stretch myself and make the efforts necessary to more fully incorporate this amazing book , which I know is true, into my life. I have found an added measure of the spirit in my heart even as I have had to speed read. So now that I have put this out there for all of you to see, I had better make it to the end. Wish me luck.