New Semester = Lots of Work!!!!

So...here I am!! I'm not dead but I'm not as alive as I could be!! :) No I'm doing ok! Enjoying the semester thus far but I realize how in over my head I am!! Oh well...I'm going to make the best of it! First things first: Book of Mormon assignments --

Today's reading was Alma 30 and the student manual ch. 29. This was about Korihor and him being an anti-christ. I really found it interesting that Korihor has all these examples around him that there IS a God and that He DOES exist yet he continues to preach against the church and its leaders about his belief in no God. Also, it is interesting that Alma tells him not to ask for a sign from God because he has been given plenty. Korihor doesn't realize that him just being on the earth is a sign from God that He does exist. Interesting...
From the student manual there was a great example from Elder Boyd K. Packer that fits in with this chapter. He talks about a trip he went on and on the plane he sat next to an atheist who kept pressing Elder Packer to explain how he knows there is a God. Elder Packer states that he had a very hard time explaining how he knew that God exists because the atheist didn't understand words like spirit and testimony etc. Finally Elder Packer asked the man if he knew what salt tasted like. The man said yes he had it on his dinner last night. Elder Packer asked him to explain the taste. The atheist man said that it is not sour and it is not sweet. Elder Packer wisely said, "Thank you for telling me what it is not, now tell me what it is."
This shows that even though you can't always explain something doesn't mean it isn't real or true.