By Elder David A. Bednar

Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles


David A. Bednar The overarching theme of the Book of Mormon—inviting all to come unto Christ—is paramount in Lehi's vision.

I love the Book of Mormon. Some of my earliest gospel memories are of my mother reading to me from Book of Mormon Stories for Young Latter-day Saints, by Emma Marr Petersen. In those childhood experiences and during a lifetime of ongoing personal study and prayer, the Holy Ghost repeatedly has borne witness to my soul that the Book of Mormon is the word of God.

I testify that the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. I know that the Prophet Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon with and by the power of God. And I witness that the Book of Mormon is "the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man [will] get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."1