by Annette Lyon
Our family visited grandparents the first weekend of January. At least, that’s my excuse for not knowing about our bishop’s “Book of Mormon Iron Man.” By the time we heard he’d challenged the ward to read the entire Book of Mormon before spring general conference, I figured we’d lost too much daylight to make it happen for our family.

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By Heather Moore
Each time I read the Book of Mormon, I learn something new. But how can it be new? The words are the same, the stories are the same. Yet I learn different things each time I read the Book of Mormon because I am different. As a girl, reading the scriptures gave my family unity and a sense of purpose. We learned where we had come from and what our purpose was on earth. Most importantly, we learned that we could be an eternal family.

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By Jerry Ainsworth
In 1976, I took a group of university students to the Yucatan, Mexico, as part of our studies in International Health Care. While there, we rented three vans and drove to the ruin site of Chichen Itza, on the northern tip of the peninsula.

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By Phyllis Carol Olive
Depending only on what little DNA evidence could be gleaned from the remains of America’s
prehistoric residents, theories over the past century had all Native American DNA falling within four haplogroups A, B, C, and D. Three of the four haplogroups, A, C, and D are found primarily in Asia, with the B haplogroup found chiefly in southeast Asia.

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By Rod Meldrum
The search for a setting for the Book of Mormon has taken countless hours of exhaustive study and research by numerous individuals. As unimportant as the geography of this scripture may be for individual salvation, it continues to spark a lively interest for the student of the Book of Mormon.
There is something unsettling about not knowing, at least in general terms, where events described in scripture have taken place.

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