Blogging Through the Book of Mormon

19:27-38 - The destruction of S&G was so prolific that even Abraham saw "the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace," from the plains that he was staying at. Even though Lot had asked the angels to let him take his family and stay in Zoar, at this point "he feared to dwell in Zoar: and went and dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters." This is where it gets weird, Lot's older daughter says to the younger one, "our father is old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father." I've read some articles about this and there are some good points brought up in them. First, when the angels tell Lot to go convince his sons in law to come with them, I thought that they were married to other daughters that Lot had, but apparently everyone else interpreted this to mean that these men were...

I can’t believe that I’ve been gone from here for almost 4 months. I can definitely tell a difference in my daily life when I haven’t been doing a deep daily study of the scriptures. I’ve tried to read the Book of Mormon everyday but the deep reflection and study everyday really helps me stay focused spiritually. I had to study pretty intensely for a test that I had to take for work and I did that everyday for 2 months. It actually helped a lot to give up my in depth study of the scriptures because I told myself, “you are giving up scripture study for this so you better get to studying.” I probably won’t know if I passed for another couple of weeks, so that’s a little frustrating, but I’m optimistic. I took that test on October 5th, then I started a new job on October 10th so I’ve been working during the day training for that, and now I’m finally back on nights where I have a bit more breathing room to do what I want to do, which is study the scriptures. 19:12-26 - Lot has just told th...